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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can you check in a terminal? If you can see them in the terminal and not in the desktop you're missing a font. If you can't see them in the terminal then you've somehow mangled them. What was the OS and filesystems you copied from?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unless the font if the terminal has the same issue

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 days ago

Redirecting the output of ls to commands such as hexdump or od would allow to notice if the name has international characters or if they were replaced by some placeholder character (which would be represented as a repeated value across the hex dump)