Why doesn't my terminal output unicode characters properly?
I figured it out. I had to make sure I set LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8" in /etc/rc.conf and LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in /etc/locale.conf, then logged out and logged back in and it worked. My terminal displays unicode properly now.
I updated my locale with the following command:
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en.UTF-8then rebooted:
sudo reboot
In case you cannot change /etc/* files, you can manually set the gnome-terminal menu Terminal|Set Character Encoding to Unicode(Utf-8)