Curl command output has incorrect encoding

Question

when i do

curl "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=1225955&u=c" 

it returns me the answer with the wrong coding:

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However, the same command works fine on another computer. Is there anything I need to install in the shell in order to get this in the correct format?

im using ubuntu 14.04 64 bit. (Linux khan-P55A-UD3P 3.13.0-40-generic # 69-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 13 17:53:56 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU / Linux)

any ideas? here you can also see a screenshot of this command: http://i.imgur.com/QDy7F7i.png

Answer 1

I think this is due to the default encoding of your terminal (the default is UTF-8). You can try to transfer the stream to a file, for example:

 curl "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=1225955&u=c" > response 

I had the same problem with the rest of the webservice when I skipped bytes (Pdf content format inside the Data Handler). Without going through the stream, I received data encoded in UTF-8 in the terminal, and also when I used soapUi.

Answer 2

Try setting the terminal encoding to utf-8. Google got this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28136/set-gnome-terminals-default-charset-to-utf8

Before setting the encoding check, make sure that this is really a problem by defining the current encoding as in:

How to get character encoding in terminal