Question marks (unknown characters) in file sizes

[Jānis]

Question marks (unknown characters) in file sizes: see the screen-shots attached to the post!

[Aaron]

Hello,

In your file Explorer, what character is shown/used for that delimiter?

What are your current Regional Settings? And which Linux OS are you currently running?

[Jānis]

[19:28:56] janis@janis-desktop /etc $ cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="lv_LV:lv"
LC_NUMERIC="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="lv_LV.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="lv_LV.UTF-8"
[19:29:02] janis@janis-desktop /etc $ cat lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17
DISTRIB_CODENAME=qiana
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17 Qiana"

It's hard to find a separator example, as the file explorer displays the size in KB, MB etc, so most (if not all?) sizes do not go above three digits. But if I view a file's properties, it says, for example, "Size: 106,7 KiB (109*236 bytes)".

(Update) Hmm... That's odd. I do not see the asterisk there. Neither in the explorer, nor here in the editor when I copied the string "106,7 KiB (109*236 bytes)". But it appeared upon submitting the post only.

(Update 2) OK, it is non-breaking space: https://unicode-table.com/en/00A0/ (bytes C2A0).

[Aaron]

Thanks for that information. I'll open a tracker entry to investigate. This seems to be a specific issue with Linux Mint and setting the Region to Latvia

[harald.viste]

I see the same on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with Norwegian settings.
The workaround is to run the following command before running bcompare: export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8

Thanks for that information. I'll open a tracker entry to investigate. This seems to be a specific issue with Linux Mint and setting the Region to Latvia

[Chris]

To always make Beyond Compare for Linux run with the above workaround, edit the launcher script.

sudo gedit /usr/bin/bcompare

After the line #!/bin/sh, add the line:
export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8

[Chris]

The thousand separator showing as ? on Linux is fixed in Beyond Compare 4.4.

[Jānis]

Thank you! It looks all right now.