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Re: unicode / utf-8 characters displayed incorrectly in konsole

Maximiliano Curia wrote on 30/06/16 16:16:

On Thursday, 30 June 2016 11:40:39 CEST Arthur Marsh wrote:

I've reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829002



Sometime yesterday due to upgrades or something happening when my
computer mouse behaved randomly for a minute or so, I've lost the
display of unicode/utf-8 characters in konsole, instead seeing the
diamond with a question mark in it. If I try to use mozc to input
Japanese text, the result displays as plain question marks.



Any suggestions on where to look/what to try?


Copy and pasting random japanese characters seem to work fine here. Could you
please check if konsole is using Unicode? (Right click set encoding),
It had been set to "default". I thought that the default encoding inherited from KDE would be Unicode/utf-8?
When I set each tab's encoding to Unicode/utf-8 characters displayed correctly. 


also the
output of:
set | egrep -a '^(LC_|LANG)'

Could be of use.


That gives me:

LANG=en_AU.UTF-8



Also, it might be worth testing a different font. Dejavu Sans Mono is probably
the most complete font available, so start with that one. Other fonts rely on
the fontconfig fallbacks to produce the characters that are not defined.

Happy hacking,



Thanks very much for the help and suggestions.
I've also replaced the PS/2 mouse with a USB mouse that identifies itself as: 

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse
having discovered some error messages about loss of synchronisation with the PS/2 mouse. 

I'll update the bug report in a few minutes.
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