I think it happened after I downloaded a binary file with curl and forgot to use the -O argument.
This machine was working fine until today. These weird characters appear everywhere, even while I'm typing. But in the terminal it looks like this: $ cat chars.txtĢ1 40 23 24 25 5e 26 2a 28 29 5f 2b 7b 7d 0a For example I made a text file with the following contents: I open this in vi or nano it looks correct just as I have written above. Some letters look fine, but some symbols appear as some non-English characters. I'm running CentOS 7.9 and today my terminal is showing weird characters.