Where did the vertical bar symbol go?

Question

linux

Hello. In the ubuntu server 12.04 console, instead of the vertical bar character, a tilde is printed, and instead of a tilde, some kind of “zagagulin” is printed (it looks like the letter “G”, only it lies on its side). Please tell me where to dig?
UPD: I reinstalled ubuntu - the same problem, in general I installed Centos and everything is in order.

Answer 1

Faced the same problem today. It turned out that everything was simple in Keyboard-> Layouts there was an English (UK) layout, changed to English (US) everything became as it should.

Answer 2

If the problem is related to the curved keyboard setting in xorg.conf, then this is how it is solved:
If in the terminal, then you can also google it.

Answer 3

Check the encoding in the SSH client (there really is something strange in putty) and the locale on the server itself (there should be something sane, like LANG=en_GB.UTF-8).