Locale settings question

[zoe]

Hi everyone

One question that i still can't get an answer. I use English for my system and changed some locale to Greek in order to see some of my files and stuff.Even though i 've fixed already my locale i can read and save texts in Greek but if i download something in my language i get Chinese characters and can't find a way to fix this.Anyone with similar problem that found a solution?it's quite annoying cause it's consuming a lot of time to delete or move stuff with Chinese characters

Thanks in advance

[aceFruchtsaft]

Does this only concern the contents of files you download from the internet? Then I would assume that this problem arises because whatever you open the file with assumes that it's a different encoding (the system default, e.g. utf-8) than it actually is. For example, if you download some text file with greek letters in it and it's encoded in ISO-8859-7, while your system encoding is utf-8 and a text editor such as kate assumes that it's utf8, then you will get character garbage.

What is your output of the locale command?

BTW, did you literally mean Chinese characters (this would be strange), or just some random character garbage?

[Kollin]

Did u try to set up a Greek unicode consolefont + unicode locale?
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[zoe]

Hello and thanks for the replies

This is not the case, i won't have a problem with a text(or pps or doc) dowloded from internet, i can see the title and content in Greek and have no problem with utf8 or iso.I'll give an example in order to help you understand. when i download for example a torrent for a greek movie,i can see the .torrent with greek letters but when i actually download the movie in my torrents folder i get ΣΕΑΙΦΗΣ Ο ΞœΞ—Ξ§Ξ‘ΞΞŸΞ¦Ξ‘Ξ“ΞŸΞ£.avi !And yes i mean random characters .I give the locale settings in my system

[Rexilion]

Perhaps you need to change

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
and
LC_ALL=

to

LANG=el_GR
and
LC_ALL=el_GR

Plus, does

/etc/locale.gen

Contain any el_GR related entries?

Like:

el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8
el_GR ISO-8859-7

If not, add both and do:

locale-gen

[zoe]

Hi

my /etc/locale-gen looks like this

[Rexilion]

What I also did is, is putting these environmental settings in /etc/env.d/ and not in .bashrc. Why? Well sometimes, that userspecific stuff seems to be overridden by some graphical environments.... (unless they come from /etc/env.d/ of course)...

[yngwin]

You should configure everything to use UTF-8.
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[zoe]

Thanks everyone

As i said in my previous post this is my locale and i think it's the same as aceFruchtsaft's except the LC_TYPE.