Utf-8 is a form of character encoding that can represent every Unicode character available. It is the standard form of character encoding for the web and is also the standard in Ubuntu. It is set in a user's environment; an example for the British locale is en_GB.UTF-8.
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Apply iconv to all of the files in a directory
While trying to convert a collection of .srt files:
iconv -f cp1256 -t utf-8 directory/* > target/*
it converts all of the 22 files in the directory to one file in the target directory called *. ...
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Convert files to UTF-8 without BOM
I have a file in Hebrew, which is displayed now as Gibberish. On windows, what I've done at the past, I just converted the file using Notepad++ > Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM and then ...
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Full switch locale: Ubuntu server installed with no locales, how to enable locales systemwide?
I have a server with no X, installed with no locales. There is a "C" locale.
I need to:
run server scripts (no console involved) to copy, move and gzip files towards local ext4 file-system, which ...
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Unicode problem in konsole
I have a problem with text encoding in konsole (I also tried xterm, things are the same) (Kubuntu 13.04, KDE). Here is the sample output:
oleg@PrizoffN:~$ gg
gg: ...
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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 batch convert legacy files to UTF8?
I think the ideal solution for me is a Nautilus Script that performs encoding conversion on selected files.
The following script reads the encoding of a selected file and performs utf8 conversion if ...
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Libreoffice changes fonts for utf-8 characters while importing pdfs
When I import pdfs to LibreDraw ( 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 ) with utf8 characters ( with Polish special signs ) get something like:
The letters are using correct fonts in the pdf before import:
Does ...
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Conflict between variable substitution and CJK characters in BASH
I encountered a problem with variable substitution in the BASH shell.
Say you define a variable a. Then the command
$> echo ${a//[0-4]/}
prints its value with all the numbers ranged ...
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Convert a (txt|srt) document from Western(ISO-8859-15) to UTF-8
I am having problems with subtitles in my language. They are encoded as Western(ISO-8859-15) and therefore some characters are not displayed correctly. I am tired of replacing manually using gedit ...
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install Chinese(and other utf-8) fonts for Xvfb?
I have installed these packages:
apt-get install xvfb xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi firefox
But in my Firefox in Xvfb on Ubuntu Server, the Chinese characters look like:
How to install ...
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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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Cyrillic characters show as gibberish in rhythmbox
I have some Bulgarian/Russian songs which have Cyrillic characters in them. Nautilus displays them fine , but in rhythmbox all their id3tag info is displayed as gibberish.
I have set the system ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Google-earth install anomaly
I tried out more methods: the result was identical. No way UTF-8 to set characters. It lsb-core and the ttf-mscorefonts packets are installed.
I cannot reach it, that it UTF-8 letters the ...
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Change File Encoding Info
I'm having some trouble uploading text files using sftp. The trouble is, that the files on my (windows) client are utf-8 encoded, but after the upload they seem to be us-ascii encoded (at least file ...
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apt-get warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
I get this error each time I update the system using apt-get. What does this error mean? Any ideas on how to correct it?
(I am running Ubuntu 11.10)
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How to convert a Mac UTF-8 .xml file into something that Banshee understands?
I've been trying to import my iTunes library to Banshee but Banshee will not find songs that contain latin accents. It imports most songs just fine except the ones that contains accents like é, è, ç, ...
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Weird Characters On gzip Package
I'm trying to gzip my js files which in js folder.
gzip -cr js
I'm using this command on Terminal but this is result:
8�H�Q�YUG�`]{_��a"G9xj�C�!��Y �c�S�ؙ�SY�}���-mU�����w��@f�x��
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How to add UTF-8 support to my hard disk in fstab?
I use Ubuntu (Spanish language). Sometimes I get this error when I use special characters (codification error) so I read that if I edit a file of my hard disk by using gedit /etc/fstab and adding utf8 ...
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TTY unicode problem
when I open a tty (Ctrl + Alt + F1) it doesn't have utf-8 support. How can I enable it?
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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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gedit can't recognize character encoding, but gvim can
I have a lot of plain text files which come from a Windows environment.
Many of them use a whacky default Windows code-page, which is neither ASCII (7 bits) nor UTF-8.
gvim has no problem opening ...
