[SOLVED] Weird console behaviour

Question

Hi all
There's someting wrong with my console after doing pacman -Syu.
In X everything works fine though.
My console can't display danish characters like æøå, but I'm able to write them.
And the funny thing is that if I write æøå in the prompt like this :
niels ~ $ æøå
and using backspace for deletion I can delete my prompt like this:
nie
Pressing enter brings back the prompt.
First I thought it was a locale problem but everything else works fine ???
I dont know which files should be relevant to this but here is my locales:
LANG=da_DK.iso88591
LC_CTYPE="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_NUMERIC="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_TIME="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_MESSAGES="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_PAPER="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_NAME="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_ADDRESS="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_TELEPHONE="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_MEASUREMENT="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="da_DK.iso88591"
LC_ALL=
And my ~/.bashrc:
alias ls='ls -ar --color=auto'
alias x='startx -- -dpi 96'
alias backup='Scripts/Backup/./nrbackup'
alias clean='Scripts/./clean'
#PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
PS1='\[\e[0;32m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\] \[\e[m\] \[\e[1;32m\]\$ \[\e[m\]\[\e[1;37m\] '
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.12/
And the first part of my /etc/rc.conf:
LOCALE="da_DK.iso88591"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Copenhagen"
KEYMAP="dk.map.gz"
CONSOLEFONT="cp850-8x16"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-15"
USECOLOR="yes"
Does any of guys out there have any ideas about this ???
I really need to have a proper console setup !!
Last edited by niller (2008-02-17 18:45:53)

Answer 1

In my box, using unicode shows danish characters as some ugly questionmarks.
The only way to stop this is to turn off unicode everywhere possible, this also applies to Ubuntu and family.
When some bad coded website shows these questionmarks it usually helps to switch the unicode off in View-> Character Encoding ...
Don't ask me why :-/
Cheers,