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After upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 today, my terminal character display was messed up. Instead of displaying:

@System-Product-Name:~$

it replaces each of the characters as a strange square with four tiny numbers in it. The strange squares look the same as this post. I guess the terminal couldn't find the correct encoding for characters. Is there anyway to fix the encoding error?

Thank you.

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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Could you add output of `env | grep -e LANG -e LC` ref: https://askubuntu.com/a/640071/26246 Also have you tried changing the terminal font. – user.dz Oct 09 '20 at 17:32
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    @user.dz Thank you! Changing the terminal font was right! The output of your command has their values en_US.UTF-8 – Smile Oct 09 '20 at 17:40
  • You welcome, you may write an answer. Have nice day. – user.dz Oct 09 '20 at 17:47

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  1. Check that the locale was set to en_US.UTF-8 by running the command:

    env | grep -e LANG -e LC_

  2. Select the appropriate font in Terminal → the drop down list located at the title bar → Preferences → Unnamed → Text → Custom font.

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