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After reinstalling Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I got strange symbols in the terminal:

screenshot of strange symbols shown in terminal.

edited default profile settings.

Some fonts seem to be not correctly installed. What fonts are missing?

Perhaps "Inconsolata" font is the missing one, since I could not find it in the "Character Map". Thus I install this font:

sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata
sudo fc-cache -fv

Then I can see "Inconsolata" in "Character Map".

Gnome Character Map.

Nevertheless, I still got the ugly symbols in the terminal. And I've tried using the system fixed width font (Ubuntu Mono). Those "?" symbols were still there. Interestingly, those "?" do not appear in Terminator. Since I installed Powerline Powerline Ubuntu, the problem might come from the Powerline fonts.

Droid sans, Powerline symbols.

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  • What's the selected terminal font? Ubuntu's default console font is called “Ubuntu Mono”. Can you post a screenshot of the terminal emulator's profile settings? Does the same font look normal in other applications (e. g. the default character map gucharmap)? Dec 5, 2015 at 9:59
  • @DavidFoerster, thank you for the quick reply! I've updated my question :)
    – Honig
    Dec 5, 2015 at 11:57
  • did you try different font like Ubunty Mono?
    – Alex Jones
    Dec 6, 2015 at 6:13
  • @edwardtorvalds, yes, tried. Since I've installed Powerline, I guess the problem may come from Powerline fonts.
    – Honig
    Dec 6, 2015 at 12:05

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In the terminal emulator profile settings, either check the box Use the system fixed width font (red highlight), or select a font, that is currently installed on your system, through the button underneath (green highlight). Close and re-open the terminal emulator.

Gnome Terminal profile settings

I'm not entirely sure, whether this is the (only) reason for the broken font glyphs, but the selection of a non-installed font most likely causes some problem down the road.

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