What happens if you run the following?
$ echo $'\303\251'
I get the character printing correctly.
Same here, it prints out fine. Terminal is Konsole. I tried touching new file with é, and ls again prints the escape sequence, however - trying to `cat` the file by hitting Tab to get autocompletition list, it prints it correctly there. I am not entirely sure how to check for locale issues? I know there's an extensive page in arch wiki which I checked, but I don't think any of Troubleshooting issues applies. I tried `localectl status` and, I dunno if this is normal, but it prints different locale than the one set in $LANG. > echo $LANG en_CA.UTF-8 > localectl status System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VC Keymap: n/a X11 layout: n/a Changing keyboard layouts doesn't change the output of `localectl status` -- "That gum you like is going to come back in style."