[Konsole] Question marks in the place of the accents on filename

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Greetings !!

I did the error to upgrade three of my computers with LEAP 42.2.

  • All accents are replaced by ‘?’ questionmarks…

http://paste.opensuse.org/33284592

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That is because you have two different encodings on the same system. Do you know what the encoding was of your earlier set up?

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@soundlord: an addition to john_hudson’s post:

  1. Perhaps the glibc-locale rpm is missing.

  2. A side-note: I noticed a questionmark in the location mentioned in your posting (Location: Li�ge Walifornia).
    I am viewing this in Firefox 55.0.3, and have my encoding set to Unicode (Menubar > View > Text Encoding > Unicode).
    That questionmark is probably an ‘è’ (e with an grave accent), but entered with a different encoding (CP1252?).

Cheers,
Leen

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And what output do you get when you run the command “locale” in konsole?

A wrong/invalid locale would be a likely reason for your problem, as the fallback is “C” without UTF-8.

See also this recent thread:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/526766-How-do-I-set-locale

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Yep, I spent 3 dayz to try to make the network working here… since LEAP 42.2 has appeared here nothing seems to be like before ^^

Concerning the locale, I looked the locale on computers where it works as expected and tried to modify /etc/sysconfig/language and yast2//etc/sysconfig editor → environment → Language with same settings… without success

Normally the previous settings where english as main language (I can not bear the french translations ^^) and the utf8 setting is fr_BE.UTF-8.

It works on a 13.2 opensuse and 42.2 opensuse, but on THIS computer with 42.2 it doesn’t work.

http://paste.opensuse.org/75308956

I got in this computer that works (better ^^):

sirius:/ # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
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Original situation: considering that the Konsole view settings are UTF8 and the Profile is set to utf8

http://paste.opensuse.org/51491705

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glibc-locale is installed…

http://paste.opensuse.org/11654574

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  1. A side-note: I noticed a questionmark in the location mentioned in your posting (Location: Li�ge Walifornia).
    I am viewing this in Firefox 55.0.3, and have my encoding set to Unicode (Menubar > View > Text Encoding > Unicode).
    That questionmark is probably an ‘è’ (e with an grave accent), but entered with a different encoding (CP1252?).

Yep I did set my profile under Windows when Linux was dead… I jumped here to get help ^^
I never changed it untill today ^^

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And what exactly did you change it to?

Also note that the desktop’s settings override this on login.

sirius:/ # locale
LANG=POSIX

Did you run this as user or as root?
As everything (except LC_CTYPE) is set to POSIX, it was rather as root.

We need the logged in user’s settings though.

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solved: I set “yes” to the box named “local parameters for root user”, kept the checkbox enabled for utf-8 encoding and set fr_BE in the detailed locals in the popup menu.

All that done in the language feature item in Yast2.