A lot of special characters and non-English will display as gibberish if you don't enable UTF-8 locale which is not done by default. An example of things you may see withoutUTF-8 ??~N?~[? You can do it this way when connecting to the console. docker exec -it -e LANG=C.UTF-8 If you are already on the console you can do this: export LANG=C.UTF-8........