Non-ASCII Characters Appear In Path Name

I've had this happen before over SSH via PuTTY on a Windows Host but now it's happening just in Linux. I'm testing out my first attempt at remastering the Arch Live CD and my home directory never got created while running rc.local, when I tried to execute it manually I got block characters at the beginning and end of the path. I tried to type the command manually and got the same thing. I enabled en_US ISO-8859-1 along with en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen and re-ran locale.gen but it didn't seem to fix my issue. Anyone have any idea on how to fix this?
Last edited by brando56894 (2013-08-30 17:01:04)

What do you mean by non-ASCII characters?
The ASCII character set contains characters for all byte values, however not all of them are displayable characters. Is it non-displayable characters you want?

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As shown below, I used a AL32UTF8 database.
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Also, as a result of using windows-1250 for client character set, in the val column and in the second select's ncr column (iso8859-1), è (00e8) has been replaced with e through character set conversion going from server back to client.
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SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri May 23 21:25:29 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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I'm using Oracle 10.2.
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I have had some problems with clobs and usage of german
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binding. After inserting or updating the umlaut
characters were replaced by strange (spanish) '?'
which were upside down.
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BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
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Thanks for your patience.
regards,
Achchayya
Edited by: achayya on Oct 16, 2009 7:26 AM

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