weird encoding issues in htop

April 14, 2015 1.6k

I just installed a stock Debian 7 image and from the looks of it, I can see that en_US.UTF-8 is the default language/character set.

My putty session is also set to UTF8 in "Translation" option menu. But when I run htop I see some weird characters as shown in this screenshot:

What are those [?] characters, Is there anyway to get rid of them?

2 comments

asb MOD April 15, 2015
What's the output of locale -a ? Regenerating them might help, try: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
tony1 April 15, 2015
hey @asb
locale -a outputs:

C C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 POSIX

and doing sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales brings up a ncurses window to choose which locale I want to enable. en_US.utf8 is already selected. After choosing it as default locale, it prints out:

Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete.

Unfortunately, it does not fix those weird questions marks in htop.

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