Answer by cat for Hash symbols (#) turned into pound symbols (£) after...
stty sane seemed to fix the problem as well as reset did.
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There is no need of closing and re-openning or reseting your terminal! Although reseting will work this is not the proper way! You just need to clear/erase your terminal scrollback buffer. To do so,...
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For the record, to answer why this happened and how it could have been fixed without closing the terminal (and if reset failed): Many terminals support, as a feature of the VT220 terminals they are...
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The terminal accepts and executes a bunch of different character sequences as control commands. For example, all cursor movement is done using those. Some of the codes make permanent changes, like...
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Just execute reset in your session.
View ArticleAnswer by Tomasz for Hash symbols (#) turned into pound symbols (£) after...
Close the terminal and open a new one.
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Hash symbols (#) turned into pound symbols (£) after catting a binary
This is how my bash prompt used to look like. Then I did something which was probably not so smart, I did cat /bin/bash. And now my bash prompt looks like this, with a pound symbol (£) instead of a...
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