On February 4, 2020 9:39:14 PM GMT+08:00, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:05 PM Aaron LI <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If the filename has the right encoding, almost always in UTF8 today >on BSD/Linux systems, then you can use any UTF8 locales to display the >characters correctly, provided the fonts installed and the application >can use the fonts. >> >> One common exception is files from Windows, e.g., a zip created on >Windows, then the filename will have other localized encodings. >> >> Hope this helps your issue. >> > >Thank you so much Aaron :-) >The file was downloaded as PDF from google docs. >It will be really great if you can tell me how to install UTF8.
In a terminal, set the LANG environment variable (e.g., to en_US.UTF-8): For csh: setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8 For sh: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Then you can see new locale settings with the 'locale' command. And try to 'ls' your files to see whether you see the right characters. Cheers, -- Aaron
