Libreoffice is is not displaying text files correctly...

fatman2021b · 08-08-2016, 05:41 PM

Libreoffice is is not displaying text files correctly..,
The file is being displayed using non text charectors characters. I also have the same problem in firefox and chrumium.

frankbell · 08-08-2016, 08:31 PM

It sounds as if the text file might be in a character set that is not present on your computer. Was the text file composed on that computer? What charset is the text file in and what charset does your computer set to?

(You can answer the latter question by using the locale command.)

jefro · 08-08-2016, 11:43 PM

Hello and welcome to LQ.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ationalization may have some links to ideas. Language and Locale are parts of the issue that can be at fault as frankbell notes.

fatman2021b · 08-09-2016, 08:12 AM

It is an ASCII text file and it was never compressed.

fatman2021b · 08-09-2016, 02:46 PM

I did everything that the Arch Wiki instructed me to do and I am still having problems.

hydrurga · 08-09-2016, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatman2021b

I did everything that the Arch Wiki instructed me to do and I am still having problems.

What was the output from the locale command that frankbell asked you to do?

Can you also please paste the output from file filename where filename is the name of the file in question.

fatman2021b · 08-09-2016, 05:47 PM

The file name is AmbasaOSv7.x speach.txt

locale -a gives the following output:

C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
POSIX

fatman2021b · 08-10-2016, 10:08 AM

AmbasaOSv7.x speach.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text

fatman2021b · 08-10-2016, 10:16 AM

Ok, I fixed the problem. Dejavu fonts needed to be installed....

hydrurga · 08-10-2016, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatman2021b

Ok, I fixed the problem. Dejavu fonts needed to be installed....

Glad you got it sorted out! Thanks for letting us know.