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1. martin says:

   October 8, 2014 at 4:09 pm

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   Hello,

   What about this situation:
   I live in Bulgaria and have installed Mint 17 and I don’t want my Desktop to be in Bulgarian language but when I open text files that contains text in Bulgarian I can’t read them. How to change the encoding in BG without applying the language to the entire OS?
   When I log in wit BG environment the text files are readable but that’s not what I want.

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   • admin says:

     October 9, 2014 at 10:41 am

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     Hi Martin,

     What kind of encoding are the files? If they’re some old texts probably they’re in cyrillic encoding cp-1251, if so you can convert the files to UTF-8 with convert.

     https://www.pc-freak.net/blog/how-to-convert-file-content-encoded-in-windows-cp1251-charset-to-utf-8-with-iconv-to-be-delivered-properly-encoded-to-browsing-end-clients/

     Think this should solve it. (If you want we can write in cyrillic as we’re both Bulgarian 🙂 )

     Regards,
     Georgi

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2. ALeksandar Lukic says:

   January 23, 2015 at 11:11 am

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   Hi,

   It is great article. I have problem to search content in .doc files written in cyrilic (serbian) via gui. I tried gnome-search-tool (content search) with some cyrilic word but "no rearch results" Any idea? Please help.

   Thanks in advance

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   • admin says:

     January 23, 2015 at 2:32 pm

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     Hi Sasha,

     What Linux distro / version are you using?
     What is the output of:

     cat /etc/default/locale

     here is mine
     #  File generated by update-locale
     LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8

     
     If your locale change doesn’t make difference, it is possible that the file names are written in some weird encoding and thus in general in X they’re not visible in proper cyrillic but “monkey” characters.
     I had problems with cyrillic file names written in char encoding CP-1251 while GNOME is set to recognize UTF.8. If that is the case for you will have to convert cyrillic file names to other encoding – see my previous article on the topic – https://www.pc-freak.net/blog/convert-recursively-filesh-content-windowscp1251-unicode-utf8/

     If this doesn’t help too. As a final aim you can try upgrading to newer distribution or GNOME release. Compiling gnome-search-tool from source while configuring it to support encodings you like on passing it as option to ./configure script.

     Hope that helps.

     Best!

     Georgi

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3. Flor Dimassi says:

   April 8, 2020 at 11:39 pm

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   Thanks for the info! 

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