Unprintable characters in CLI

[Ari Passopolis]

When I run the command "sudo update-initramfs -u -k all" on an Ubuntu box I get output like:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-40-generic
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 1: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ubuntu-sunrise.jpg: ����JFIF



��: not found
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 2: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ubuntu-sunrise.jpg: cannot open .342��C
: No such file
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 2: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ubuntu-sunrise.jpg:

Anyone know what's going on? This happened with the standard system font and also when I changed the terminal font to Consolas.

 

[ryanvade]

This is probably either a font issue or an encoding issue (Unicode vs ASCII vs ...)
http://askubuntu.com/questions/107325/special-symbols-are-not-displayed-on-tty

 

[MikeyD]

This is probably either a font issue or an encoding issue (Unicode vs ASCII vs ...)

Agreed.

See what the value of your LANG environment variable is...

echo $LANG

If it isn't something like .....UTF-8 then those are most likely unicode characters that can't be interpreted by the CLI.