tree command does not display correctly

[joopie18]

Hi folks

I am trying to get the tree command to work. I tried sudo apt-get tree and installing it (make, make install) from ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree. Though the command does work, it does not display the results as wanted it does something like this:


������� ��������� file.zip
������� ��������� file.xls
��������� file.pdf
��������� file.csv
��������� file~

It does have the colouring, but I do not understand why the tabs or spaces are not displayed correctly.

Greetings
WC

[supercheetah]

What terminal app are you using? That's usually the cause of problems like this. I'm using Yakuake (based on Konsole) which displays tree just fine.

[joopie18]

GNOME Terminal 2.30.2
Is this not the one most frequently used?

[supercheetah]

I just tried tree in Gnome Terminal 3.0.1, and it displayed just fine in there. Try changing the font. That could be an issue.

[joopie18]

It was a font thing. Just changed the terminal to unicode...
Then it worked fine.
Alternative solution: use tree -A
Thans a lot!