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Unicode characters display improperly in KDE and on the console in Arch Linux
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Mar 15, 202614213 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I recently switched from OpenSuSE to Arch Linux. Files with unicode characters in the name used to display fine, but after the switchover I just get mojibake. For example, in my music library Queensrÿche appears as Queensrÿche. This occurs on the console as well. I piled on to a relevant thread in…
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Fix for: Unicode characters display improperly in KDE and on the console in Arch Linux
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It's possible that your locale is configured improperly; the most likely reason is that, even though the file names are stored in UTF-8, your terminal (I'm guessing Konsole) still expects a legacy ISO-8859-* encoding. I don't know the rest, but here…
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