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i have serious problem and i can't solve it my text editor (gedit,KWrite etc) can write Arabic but it can't read it i installed arabic package on my computer and also i configure my layout to arabic so if anyone can help me

I'm using ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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  • explain more. what's wrong with it?
    – 842Mono
    Nov 22, 2013 at 0:06
  • it's apear like this : اسÙا٠ÙØ­Ùد ÙحجÙØš ???????? ??­??? ??­???
    – esso
    Nov 22, 2013 at 0:42
  • instead of اسلام <-- this is arabic word and when i type it in my text editor like gedit it show normal but when I read anything alse it show like this: اØ
    – esso
    Nov 22, 2013 at 0:48
  • See this answer: gedit - Opening a non-utf8 encoded file
    – chaskes
    Nov 22, 2013 at 3:20
  • @userCS I'm glad the linked answer helped you. You may want to upvote the linked answer. ;)
    – chaskes
    Nov 22, 2013 at 20:55

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Based on your clarifying comment, you seem to have an encoding problem. In gedit, after having selected "File -> Open", you can explicitly select the character encoding that fits the document you want to open. Probably it should be something else but UTF-8 for the files in question.

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