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My screen is scrambled while reading some unexpected chars,

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It happens in a local tty, so logging out won't help.

Any ideas? Hopefully I don't have to reboot

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    If Ctrl-l or reset doesn't work, you could try setfont... Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 4:23
  • @jasonwryan Oh I thought that was a encoding problem, going to try that soon Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 4:30
  • @jasonwryan setfont doesn't work, reset did the job Commented Dec 6, 2013 at 2:42

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Reset to default
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Either type reset at the prompt, or if it's a graphical terminal it probably has a menu option to reset the terminal. If it's a virtual terminal then restarting the getty process providing the terminal will accomplish the same thing.

What happens is the terminal got stuck in "alternate character set". So it just needs to be reset to normal state.

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  • Just confirmed reset works in a terminal emulator as well ;-P Commented Dec 6, 2013 at 2:42

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