I've had this problem for a while and I hope it's a pretty easy fix:
In various places, I'll see weird symbols appearing in the command line. Such as 'â'.
It seems like it's replacing some other character..? For example, when I do
prompt -p
I'll get lots of 'â symbols. Such as:
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ââââuser@hostââââ Sun Sep 05 05:57:20pm
_cwd}~/ command arg1 arg2 ... argn
user and host replaced my actual user / host, but everything else looks exactly like that.
I've also seen those symbols in g++ compiler messages, such as:
test.cpp: In function âint main()â:
test.cpp:6: warning: unused variable âxâ
What's going on and what can I do to fix it? The shell I'm using is zsh (but I also see the symbols in bash). I'm using ubuntu and putty. Thanks!
Best Answer
Your PuTTY character set and your terminal character set don't match. Use
echo "$LANG"and look after the period for what it should be, and set it in PuTTY.