[CentOS] Question on 7.2 and weird characters

Tue May 24 19:17:56 UTC 2016
Mark Milhollan <mlm at pixelgate.net>

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