Unicode is the main standard for the representation and encoding of the text of disparate writing systems; the most common implementation of unicode character encoding, as used by Ubuntu and other operating systems, is UTF-8.
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Where is “X11 Window System Protocol” ( keysym to Unicode map)?
I am looking for the file that maps the keysym codes (e.g. "0x07a3" ) unto the related unicode-codes.
The subsequent mapping file keysymdef.h (in my Ubuntu 12.04 in /usr/include/X11) tells the ...
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How can I change the encoding of a subtitle file?
I downloaded a Greek subtitle for a movie, and this is what I see when I open it with Gedit.
Subtitle works great on VLC, all perfect.
But what if I want to edit this subtitle with some Greek ...
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How to get Ubuntu to display unicode supplementary characters?
I have a standard desktop UI install of the latest Ubuntu distro and I'm trying to view this page: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/supplementary-test.html
However none of the text display properly. I ...
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How to display Kanji in non-X terminal
I have Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop installed, but disabled the start of X because I do > 99 % of my work in a terminal. However, I have found out that the "linux" terminal is unable to display Kanji. I have ...
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How can unicode symbols u+2404 ␄ EOT and u+2405 ␅ ENQ be corrected?
The title above is rendered incorrectly in Ubuntu 12.04 as:
The unicode title identifications are correct for the codes but the symbols are switched. EOT ␄ is the same as control-D but ...
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What plaintext editor with math symbols integration is available?
I am looking for a text-editor with full unicode-math support. Plaintext math entered and rendered properly. I am not expecting typographical features and symbol-repositioning like LaTeX, but at least ...
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The unicode fonts layout provided by Ubuntu vs. the official font layout
While choosing Nepali language. I see there are slight differences between the layout provided by Ubuntu's Keyboard Layout vs. the standard font layout provided for Nepali language.
I am also not ...
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Unicode input by code in xim
Is it possible to input arbitrary unicode symbols as it is possible by default in GNOME with help of Ctrl+Shift+u but when input method have been set to xim?
I have switched to xim to use ...
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Can I input Chinese in my xterm?
I have Chinese input working. I have xterm working. I have utf-8 working in my xterm. For example, I can see the lightning bolt unicode character. But when I input Chinese characters, I get those ...
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How to download link with unicode using wget?
Sometimes a link has unicode characters in it, such as http://www.example.com/файл.zip
If you point your browser to it, it will properly prompt you to download the file as файл.zip. But if you try to ...
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How can I easily type full width alphanumeric Unicode characters?
How to easy type in Ｆｕｌｌ－ｗｉｄｔｈ ａｌｐｈａｎｕｍｅｒｉｃ way in Ubuntu?
Full-width characters are those from U+FF00 to U+FFEF
Is it possible by using IBUS or Japanese keyboard layout?
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Linux is not interperting unicode codes from wireless key board
I am using Lubuntu 12.10. I have tried this on Arch Linux as well with kernel v3.6.3. I am using a Logitech mk320 wireless keyboard. When I try to type Unicode characters using + an Unicode character ...
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Why is my OpenOffice.org presentation opening in LibreOffice Writer?
I have project created in OpenOffice.org Impress which is created in a local language. Today when I open it what I could see is:
When I open with the settings what I could see is Writer is opening ...
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Squares instead of words in lynx / links
After rebooting my system i've encountered that any russian character (i think that it's not only russian, just unicode) in my lynx / links displaying as square, only english words works ok. I didn't ...
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Devanagari characters do not render properly in gvim
Devnagari characters do not render properly in gvim. They appear just as they do when typed in vim running in a terminal (consonants and vowels separated.)
Is there any way we can make vim handle ...
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Linear B writing not displaying in browser
Linear B is part of the Unicode standard since 2003. So why doesn't it display in my Firefox?
The website in question is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B
Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit)
Firefox 14.0.1
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changing font in xterm without messing up utf-8
I'm trying to use Inconsolata font in xterm using:
xterm*faceName: Inconsolata
xterm*faceSize: 10
in .Xresources (and I don't forget to update with xrdb .Xresources) but when I changed the font, ...
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Unity + Firefox weird Unicode address glitch?
I noticed a weird glitch with dragging files from Unity onto Firefox. After dropping an element from Unity, Firefox attempts to load an address like this one:
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Alt + ASCII code like in Windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ways to enter special characters? Is Alt+Numpad possible?
Is there a way to do Alt+ASCII code for typing ASCII code in Ubuntu like one can do in Windows? If so, then how ...
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SCIM Input Method not working
I'm trying to type in my native language Sinhala with SCIM..but nothing is working. (I heard about something called ibus could help.) I want to get the phonetic output in Sinhala Unicode, when I input ...
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How do I write unicode charcaters in console mode?
I know that I'm available to write unicode characters in a terminal application by pressing ctrl+shift+u + unicode hex value, but I don't know how to input ` (the grave accent for example), or any ...
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How to create a unicode combination of keys by pressing one key (Simplify unicode adding)
I am trying to simplify the way I add Unicode characters. At least to make them easier as in Windows for ASCII characters for new comers.
Right now for example to add the letter Ñ I have to press ...
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Unicode Problem in Excel 2007
Right now I've downloaded an excel project with .csv format, but when I open it[Excel Under Wine], texts are not normal, It's a screenshot of texts:
I think it's unicode problem, How can I fix it?
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Ubuntu logo into Unicode table
I was searching something into an Unicode table. Suddenly, I feel astonished cause I saw the Ubuntu logo, at line F200 and row OO. A very small one is also available at FOEO / 1F.
Is it because this ...
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How to “install” unicode in Chromium?
How do I make Chromium on Kubuntu render Emoji Unicode characters ?
Like these : 💘💙💜💗💚❤💓💛💚💗
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What has changed in unicode font rendering since 11.04?
This is how a web page fragment shows on my old 11.04 system:
and this is how the same fragment showed on 11.10 and shows on my current 12.04 system:
Any idea what's wrong? Of course I have all ...
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/etc/init.d Character Encoding Issue
I have a script in /etc/init.d on an EC2 image that, on machine startup, pulls in source code via SVN, builds it, and then runs it using Ant. The source code is Java. Within this code is a call to the ...
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How do I change the Display Language Used for non-Unicode Programs? [closed]
I was watching English films translated into arabic with a .srt file. It looks like this in Ubuntu 11.10:
For some reason, though, it looks like this in windows 8:
so what can I do to see the right ...
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install sinhala unicode pack
Ubuntu has the built in sinhala unicode support. But it is not the 'wijesekara' keyboard layout. ( http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/layout/ ) . How ever 'wijesekara' type pack is available in ...
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How to combine features of different input methods? [closed]
I want to have two different features concerning input methods.
First, I want to have custom Compose key combinations. I use ~/.XCompose, but in order to make it work I had to change default input ...
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Inputting Unicode mnemonics/diagraphs
How do you input unicode mnemonics (RFC 1345)? For example - then + gives ∓. This cheatsheet is nice reference.
Vim, Emacs, Screen and ZSH all have the ability to enter these, however I am unsure how ...
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Some texts appear as “Label empty”
I've got a problem with some of the texts not appearing in Ubuntu 11.04. I use the Spanish translation of Ubuntu and reinstalling the packages didn't solve the problem.
You will find some screenshots ...
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Why CharMap in Ubuntu for lydian not showing up the correct character set
Why CharMap in Ubuntu 11.04 for lydian not showing up the correct character set. I checked couple of different character sets(Javanese), its showing up the same boxed hexdecimal values.
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Found an error in font in Ubuntu, where and how should I report it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I report a bug?
I am playing with Braille unicode characters and I just realised that DejaVuSans Mono and FreeMono(and maybe other fonts too) show character:
⡳ ...
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How do I type β with combining circumflex accent?
There's combining circumflex accent, U+0302 (in the Combining diacritical marks block). Neither it nor the letter β are on my keyboard.
How do I combine the two to write "beta hat" like this when I ...
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Text inside files has squares with numbers in it
Some text files I come across, have little squares with numbers in them (in place of certain characters). I am unable to copy and paste these in Ubuntu, but may search and replace in gedit each ...
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How do I display Japanese characters with default fonts? [closed]
In a fresh install of 11.04 Natty, Japanese characters (Kanji, some Kana) were still not displaying correctly in URLs and after I followed the instructions for installing Japanese language support. ...
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How can I configure default fonts by unicode blocks or single codepoints? [closed]
I have the following vexing problem I've been trying to solve for weeks now, to no avail so far.
*WARNING overly long question---in short: * what I need, in essence, is a system-wide way to exactly ...
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Is it possible to type a thin and hair space without entering the Unicode?
Is it possible to type a hair space (u200a) and a thin space (u2009) in Ubuntu without entering the Unicode code? Something with the Compose key?
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Cross-platform non-ASCII symbols in filenames with TrueCrypt
I have a TrueCrypt volume created under Windows 7. Some folders and file names contain Cyrillic symbols. When mounting the volume in Ubuntu 10.10, I see question marks instead of those letters. Is ...
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Ways to enter special characters? Is Alt+Numpad possible?
I know there's this question How can I type special characters like ë?, but I'd like to know if there is any possibility to configure the keyboard to use windowish style to insert special characters ...
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How to make Empathy to support Unicode names in Jabber?
If I use non-latin letters to name a Jabber contact, then in chat windows (and in contact list too after I restart) they are displayed as &#nnn; codes, not as letters I've written. Is this ...
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Why does printf report an error on all but three (ASCII-range) Unicode Codepoints, yet is fine with all others?
The 'printf' I refer to is the standard-issue "program" (not the built-in): /usr/bin/printf
I was testing printf out as a viable method of convert a Unicode Codepoint Hex-literal into its Unicoder ...
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How do I switch to Unicode entry mode?
I am trying to switch into Unicode entry mode using Ctrl + Shift + U, but after I hit this combination nothing happens. I also tried Ctrl + U, Ctrl + Alt + U. Do I need to enable this mode anywhere? ...
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Is GNU Emacs Unicode compliant, or is it just Multi-Lingual aware via Mule?
I've read that GNU Emacs handles international scripts via a system called Mule (Multi-Lingual-Environment).
I also read (somewhere, a while back) that there was a move afoot (in recent years) to ...
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What feature is at play when Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U,E “types” an unprintable hex 000E?
I tend to use Ctrl+Shift+Alt for my customized system-wide keybindings.
When I tried Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U it printed an underscored u and waited for more keyboard input!...
Some keys were accepted and ...
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Can I specify what characters set the double-click selection boundary in GNOME Terminal?
When I double-click to select text in GNOME Terminal, the selection stops at spaces but continues over hyphens:
Some of my filenames contain uncommon characters such as the heavy teardrop-spoked ...
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Unable to change encoding to utf8
Hey! I am having this really strange problem. I can't convert a file to utf8 it's always in us-ascii.
I have tried this:
iconv --verbose --output=test2 -t
UTF-8 test
(I have also specified ...
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Non-ASCII characters show as boxes in textbox of VB.Net application under Mono
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (can't upgrade due to some applications being incompatible with later versions), with all updates installed.
A colleague has written a VB.Net application which seems to run ...
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How can I troubleshoot keryx 'UnicodeEncodeError' error?
As it had been recommended here I tried to install Keryx but I am getting following error and could not able to open up the software.
Here is the error message:
(keryx:4127): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule ...
