[SOLVED] Can't see special characters in terminal

Hi, sorry for my bad English.
I installed Arch Linux around 4 days ago and I'm having problems with special characters, such as:
á, ç, é, ã
I can type them and see what I type in bash (except when I do between "", like $echo "á", so they automatically become "??").
When I use ls, my files are also showed as "??", A??, when they should be "Á" and "Aí".
It would be normal, like a font issue, but here is the weird part:
When I use the bash auto-complete (TAB) to see files in my current directory, they are showed correctly according to the font I am using,
for example, the current font still show they wrongly, like "A??" when the file is "Aí", and when I set the font LatArCyrHeb-16, it shows "Aí".
It looks like bash-completion is the only application affected by setfont.
Sorry if my explanation is too confuse.
I can send screenshots if necessary.
Last edited by guilhermecaldas (2013-06-26 07:07:24)

I was using LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 in /etc/vconsole.conf, but I was selecting and generating pt_BR.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen
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