On 2023-08-17 01:47:25 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
It's an encoding problem. Try this:
$ LANG=C tree /tmp/ $ LANG=LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 tree /tmp/
The last command gives fine ascii art on UTF-8 terminals, but "funny" result on ISO... consoles.
Same happens for other commands.
Nik
Anno domini 2023 Wed, 16 Aug 23:44:29 -0400
Felix Miata via tde-users scripsit:
(It seems like this problem only just arose in the weeks since the middle of June, maybe more recently, but at least a month ago.)
I often find them replaced by other characters, as in the attachment. The SS is from Tumbleweed, but it happens also in Leap, and also in KDE3's Konsole. Is this an absence of some specific font? If not, what needs to be differently configured for Konsole to always use boxdraw characters when an app or utility is supposed to be using them when used in Konsole?
What follows is all from one multiboot PC:
# grep RETT /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # wpctl status PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.75, root@ab250, cookie:1948030365] ΓΆΓΆ Clients: 31. WirePlumber [0.3.75, root@ab250,
[snip]
I often see stuff like this in emails. I suspect that they have been composed on Windows, which uses code pages instead of UTF-8. kmail has settings in Configure => Appearance, Message Window, but I'm afraid to tinker with them; the kmail handbook has no entries for Message List or Message Window.
Leslie