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Hi,I'm not sure if this is a locale problem or a desktop problem or what. Unicode characters are not appearing correctly on XFCE terminal. Instead of characters with diacritical marks, they appear as emerald shapes with question marks in them and they are apparently really getting mangled, because I cannot paste them back into firefox and get the correct characters. How do I fix this?

This will happen if your LANG environment variable isn't set. You can check with: It should say something similar to:

See if this can help you.