On Mon, 23 May 2016, Jerry Geis wrote: >When I run this command: >rm /tmp/jerry.txt >rm: remove regular file â/tmp/jerry.txtâ? > >I get the a with the carrot on top... > >How do I get back to the normal characters ? Your locale specifies an encoding that your terminal doesn't understand, i.e., they are out of sync, e.g., LC_CTYPE includes ".UTF-8" but your terminal expects Latin1 or vice-versa. Change your terminal to match LC_CTYPE or change LC_CTYPE to match your terminal (perhaps even unset it). /mark