Question mark instead of pipes.

[ghost]

I'm currently on Ubuntu 16.04, with various personalized font installed (font awesome, monaco, consolas). I've also installed consolas, that as far as i can see is the font on the readme file here on github, but when i run pipes, just question marks appears.

[StefansM]

Hi @simoneeva,
It sounds like you are either missing missing some required characters from your font, or pipes.sh can't display Unicode characters with your locale / terminal combination.

Can you tell me:

1. The terminal emulator you are using (xterm, urxvt, etc).
2. The output of the locale command.
3. The value of the $TERM environment variable (echo $TERM).
4. What happens when you run pipes.sh -t 4. You should see a pipe made of -|+ characters.

[ghost]

i'm using Terminator

Output of the locale command:

(xenial)simone@localhost:~$ locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

echo $TERM output is nothing

pipes.sh -t (4-5-6-7-8) display the correct things, the exception are n°1-2-3-9

[StefansM]

The options that aren't working require your terminal to use UTF-8 character encoding, but the POSIX locale is a fallback locale and only encodes for ASCII characters.

If you have any UTF-8 locales available (locale -a), you can temporarily enable one of them using export LC_ALL=<name of locale> and try pipes.sh again. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale for details on how to generate a new locale if you don't have any suitable one available, and how to permanently set your locale.

[sairam]

I had a similar issue for mac.

I did export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" and it works fine for -t 0