[SOLVED] UTF8 in terminal.

hack3rcon · 08-19-2017, 07:10 AM

Hello.
How can I enable UTF8 in terminal? sometimes files or directories names are not English.

Thank you.

smallpond · 08-19-2017, 07:30 AM

Most terminal programs are similar to xterm which sets it's character encoding based on the LANG environment variable. Of course, your font needs to support the characters used or else you get the default box character.

hack3rcon · 08-20-2017, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by smallpond

Most terminal programs are similar to xterm which sets it's character encoding based on the LANG environment variable. Of course, your font needs to support the characters used or else you get the default box character.

"LANG" variable? How can I change it?

DavidMcCann · 08-20-2017, 11:03 AM

What do you get from the "locale" command? For example, I get "en_GB.utf8". Most have used utf8 as the default for years.

This is the sort of question where it would help if your posts included the name of your distro, since the information is stored in various places.

hack3rcon · 08-21-2017, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

What do you get from the "locale" command? For example, I get "en_GB.utf8". Most have used utf8 as the default for years.

This is the sort of question where it would help if your posts included the name of your distro, since the information is stored in various places.

My Distor is Debian 8.6 x64 and the output of command is :

Code:

$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

But I can't see the folder name is other languages correctly!!!

I did "https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/303712/how-can-i-enable-utf-8-support-in-the-linux-console" too but problem not solved.

smallpond · 08-21-2017, 05:52 AM

What terminal are you using?

hack3rcon · 08-21-2017, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by smallpond

What terminal are you using?

"MATE Terminal 1.8.1".

DavidMcCann · 08-21-2017, 11:17 AM

It would seem that the problem is probably the font used in the terminal: try changing it. Which languages are not displaying properly?

hack3rcon · 08-22-2017, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

It would seem that the problem is probably the font used in the terminal: try changing it. Which languages are not displaying properly?

Change Terminal? Fonts like Asian language, Farsi and...

DavidMcCann · 08-22-2017, 11:08 AM

That was helpful. I've looked at some Arabic and it displays properly in my text editor, but in the terminal (with the same font) the characters are all in the isolated form.

The answer seems to be mlterm. If it's not in your distro's repository, you can get it here
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/

hack3rcon · 08-23-2017, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

That was helpful. I've looked at some Arabic and it displays properly in my text editor, but in the terminal (with the same font) the characters are all in the isolated form.

The answer seems to be mlterm. If it's not in your distro's repository, you can get it here
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/

No, "mlterm" is a Debian repository and working very good, But why this problem can't solve via normal terminal?

DavidMcCann · 08-23-2017, 10:34 AM

I'm glad that's sorted out: could you mark the thread SOLVED?

I suspect that the creators of the terminals were thinking that they only needed to cope with commands in bash, and that having a few funny-looking file names for some users was more acceptable than having to make their programs a lot more complicated. When I started using computers, file names could only use the Latin alphabet!

hack3rcon · 08-26-2017, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

I'm glad that's sorted out: could you mark the thread SOLVED?

I suspect that the creators of the terminals were thinking that they only needed to cope with commands in bash, and that having a few funny-looking file names for some users was more acceptable than having to make their programs a lot more complicated. When I started using computers, file names could only use the Latin alphabet!

Thank you