Strange letters and weird boxes around dialog boxes

Hello!
I'm wondering what might cause something like this:
mkdir text
ls
text
rm text/
rm: cannot remove Ètext/È: Is a directory
The commands doesn't matter, just the end right there. The text looks weird and everything. It shows like this in other places as well but I just made this example up.
And if there is a dialog box it will have a line that consists of the same kind of letters, not a straight line.
How do I fix this?

Trilby wrote:
Timelaw, being new and needing to learn is fine, but you will be expected to do some of your own research.
JWR linked to an article about how to ask questions in a manner that will yeild useful results. One of the underlying themes - and even one of the specific examples - describes someone being given advice on a forum when they are told to check the value of some setting (like, say, $TERM). The bad response described in that article is to immediately respond "What is TERM?".
We are here to help solve your problem, but we are not here to reiterate basic facts that could be found through a 5 second google search. Google "Linux TERM" or "WM DE" and I have no doubt the first results will tell you exactly what these are - then we can focus on solving the actual problem, rather than the trivialities which you are certainly capable of determining without help.
Please actually read the article JWR linked to. You can keep your eye out for the short example on a "stuck zentry" for the example I'm referring to.
I did google the DE and WM thing but I didn't found anything that related to the matter. I guess I did it with other keywords or something. (What I googled was "WM/DE means/meaning" etc)
I did check the link, and I have it here in a seperate tab, reading bits as I keep going. If it looked like I didn't care, that's not the case.
Also, when I wrote $TERM in the console it said
-bash: linux: command not found
And now when I have googled, it said that linux is the most common thing the variable is set to, in new systems etc, and I suppose that is why it says linux there?
Also, I'm quite busy with a lot of stuff and I'm trying to fix this issue with my Arch when I have spare time, and so I wrote this in the hope that I could get it explained until I actually had time to look at this again.
I'm sorry for the trouble.
Last edited by timelaw (2013-04-03 12:24:09)

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