August 2, 2019 11:10 AM, "Eli Schwartz via arch-general" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The ls command will by default escape the character into its numeric > code if it thinks the character is invalid in your locale. I can get ls > to print the same thing as you (using shell-escaped $'\303\251') *iff* I > first export LC_ALL=C (which is not a UTF-8 locale and therefore cannot > print unicode characters). > > This indicates something is wrong with your locale, because at the very > least, your shell cannot parse the character correctly -- maybe neither > can libreoffice. "I forgot to generate the locales" will cause this issue. Try running `localedef --list-archive` and checking that en_CA.UTF-8 actually exists. If not, uncomment it in /etc/locale.gen and run `sudo locale-gen`. ~Celti
