nonenghlish chars on linux

Question

After I do this wget http://www.francefootball.fr/

All the french accents are displayed wrong on the console.

Any ideas?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '11 at 11:59

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You need to use an compatible encoding to correctly show the foreign chars. Use sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales to select the locales for your machine. Set it to a UTF-8 locale and see if it fixes.

answered Mar 01 '11 at 11:59

coredump

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It is already UTF-8 – mazgalici Mar 01 '11 at 12:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '11 at 11:54

Which console are you using? If you're connecting using PuTTY you need to change the character encoding under the settings. I'm not on a Windows machine at the moment so I can't guide you through each step but I think it's under Session -> Encoding or similar.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 01 '11 at 19:18

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When my term gets messed up, I run reset, and that fixes it:

reset

answered Mar 01 '11 at 19:18

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