Resolved - thanks, was locale issue, not font issue Was: [Re: [opensuse-factory] Leap 42.1 weird fonts (mosly konsole) after last week's update]

8 Feb 2016

      Thanks to all who helped, and for the locale pointer, and my apologies
for a misunderstanding of the reason, and wasting time of the list..

My locale was apparently set to iu_CA ("Inuktitut language locale for
Nunavut, Canada"). I have no recollection setting it to that value or
any value in the last 2 weeks, but I might have, being in Canada.
Apart from updates, I installed GNUCash and a few editors (nano, joe)
recently. Not sure any of these could make the change in user locale.

My appologies again, I should have thought about locale to start with,
I remember I checked but  only looked at the flag, and missed the "iu"
element.

Thanks
Milan

PS: My locales before the change:

su --------------------------------------
su:~ # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
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=

su:~ # echo $LANG
POSIX

regular user: -----------------------------
...
locale
LANG=iu_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="iu_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
...
echo $LANG
iu_CA.UTF-8
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Christian Boltz  wrote:
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Hello,
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2016, 18:15:56 CET schrieb Milan Zimmermann:
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016, Felix Miata  wrote:
...
Milan Zimmermann composed on 2016-02-02 11:23 (UTC-0500):
...
I will report a bug, but wanted to check here first if anyone sees
this.
I noticed this last weekend, that (I think) after one of last
week's
updates, some applications (I noticed in Java Ide Netbeans) changed
fonts. Then I noticed that konsole shows things like:
mzimmermann@home-server:~/airlift-syus/syus-cloud/projects/syus-on-
cubifier> date
á“• á••á•—  2 11:18:50 EST 2016
Charset mismatch prevents me from telling what you're trying to
show.
I am attaching a small image. In is even more interesting. For a
regular user, commands like "date" and "ls -l", the day of week and
month name are mangled; For superuser it is ok
Please compare the output of   locale   as user and as root.
In the default settings, root has locale, which explains why you get the
readable english date.
Your user probably has a totally different locale. I'm not sure from
which language those chars come, but it's clearly not using the "usual"
(for me - people in other countries will disagree) latin letters ;-)
...
...
Which
Konsole version is installed?
15.12.1-9.1
I'm quite sure this problem is not causes by Konsole (or xterm or
whatever) - otherwise you would see similar problems after switching to
root with 'su'.
Regards,
Christian Boltz
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Ich glaube ich versteh' jetzt auch, warum die modprobe.conf nur noch
eine extrem simple Syntax hat. Denn das meiste muss man sowieso beim
booten laden. Und der Rest wird ueber den hotplug Krempel
"quasi-manuell" geladen (da nur (vom Distributor) verscriptet).
Yippie-ah-yea-ah, Schweinebacke, also DAS nennt ich Fortschritt.
[David Haller in suse-linux]
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