[Gnome] weird appearance of special characters

Hi,
Yesterday I installed a new arch on my PC. When I was looking for a file on my HDD I saw an weird appearance of special characters like "☆" or "♪", they've been replaced by a square...
I think this is a problem with my locales but I don't know where is my problem...
In my rc.conf I have :
LOCALE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
I also tried to set "utf8" in lower case but didn't worked.
In my locale.gen I have uncommented :
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR ISO-8859-1
When I type on a Terminal "locale" I get that :
LANG=fr_FR
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR"
LC_TIME="fr_FR"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR"
LC_NAME="fr_FR"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR"
LC_ALL=
But nothing with utf8...
I also try to type "locale-gen" between different steps but it didn't worked too...
Thanks for you help !

I went toe Edit → special characters which opened up the special characters window, which is the same as the Character view that I can access for my menu bar in the upper right of the screen (next to the battery icon), then I went to the "Greek" option on the side so the greek letters showed up and doubled clicked on my symbol of choice.
I will do below to see if it works here:
α β
Also thanks Peter I will check her version of word, I am pretty sure if it is running that then she probably doesn't know about it.
Kari

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>
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