Problems with special characters

[agmm23]

Hi

I am trying to copy files to debian and the name of the file uses special characters as °

Everytime that I copy that file the special character ° is replaced by ?

I believe that I need to install a package with apt-get install, but I don't know which package to install.

My LANG variable is set to es_CL.UTF-8

Thanks

[smallchange]

I wish I could give you a real good answer but I think the best I will be able to manage is a little help. I also see this problem but using en_US.UTF-8. In my case when I find an application that does not have UTF support I run it like this

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LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 man ls

It can also be done this way

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LC_CTYPE=en_US man ls

I have created a number of aliases because of this. For instance, to see what es_CL locales are available is used this alias

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alias dr='LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 sudo dpkg-reconfigure'

because dialog boxes look weird if I don't. Anyway, that showed me that es_CL.iso88591 is available. I think if you install that locale you will be able to use this method and go from impossible to awkward.