shell character encoding seems to have been altered

Question

I'm having a problem with my shell on an Ubuntu virtual machine that I ssh in to. It was working fine until I output the contents of a JPEG file directly, since then the character encoding seems to have messed up and I've no idea how to fix it. Characters are looking like this:

ÆsudoÅ password for rory: 

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the output of locale is:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I've tried rebooting with no effect. Any hints on how to solve?

Answer 1

The problem is probably in your local terminal rather than the remote system. Try the reset command within that terminal (from any system that has it) or close and re-open it.