I have ububntu 12.04 installed. and despite i installed the arabic language from langauge support, when I open an application all the arabic language in its interface are displayed as queston mark. how to solve this problem
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possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/648823/…– Frank SchrijverMay 17, 2016 at 17:28
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@FrankSchrijver the link you provided does not offer a solution as the post is mainly about how to read a file in different encodings, while my case is, the interface of a software is in unreadable text– ElpharaohMay 17, 2016 at 17:46
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askubuntu.com/questions/350213/… this one suggests "suggest downloading the language packs straight from System Settings--->Language Support--->Install/Remove Language"– Frank SchrijverMay 17, 2016 at 17:53
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@FrankSchrijver in my question i ststed that i installed the required langauge pack for arabic– ElpharaohMay 17, 2016 at 18:50
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yes im sorry. have you tried changing your locale? help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale– Frank SchrijverMay 17, 2016 at 18:56
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Not all locale's are available so we must generate them:
sudo locale-gen ar_SA.UTF-8
Change the locale
update-locale LANG=ar_SA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
then reboot