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After a recent archlinux upgrade via pacman -Suy I lost UTF-8 display in terminals under xorg. This affects lxterminal, XFCE's terminal, and kde's konsole. I use XFCE 4.6 as window manager.

In my /etc/rc.conf I do have the line LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" but non-ascii characters still show in terminal as funny symbols. UTF-8 characters are displayed fine in virutal consoles (accessible via ctr+alt+f1..) and in SSH sessions via putty. Also gnome-terminal displays UTF-8 without problems.

Is there a way to fix it?

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What exactly do they look like? If you type printf '\xe2\x99\xaa\n'; does it output "♪" or "♪" or "�"? – grawity Jun 6 '11 at 21:05
The second, i.e. "�". – ccpizza Jun 7 '11 at 10:00
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I got my UTF-8 console back after renaming my ~/.config folder, and also looking through the pacman update logs (/var/log/pacman.log) and merging the .pacnew files mentioned in the 'warning' lines.

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but if you rename the .config directory don't you lost all your old configuration? – tokland Aug 10 '11 at 13:41
2tokland: yes, you lose some config settings, but since I had not deleted the folder but renamed it, I could copy over the customized files which I needed. Anyway, most config files under ~/.config are generic and seldom contain anything important. – ccpizza Nov 13 '11 at 23:15
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