Cannot see special characters

I cant see any specail characters apart from the usal ones like !"£$%^&()_+=#';][/.,\
I have no idea what is wrong.
I can see them in character map, but not whne they are in other applications.
The ones in the image on the right where "ＪｄｅＬＮｈｉＯＰｊｋＱＲｌｍＳＴｎｏＵ"

You should have a Unicode locale set at /etc/rc.conf. Check the one you have and if it isn't UTF-8, you should check /etc/locale.gen, uncomment the unicode locale for your language and run locale-gen as root to generate it. Then change the LOCALE at /etc/rc.conf to the same exact name as the one you have uncommented.

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Can you see me: ?
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PIDSC1
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