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• Locale
• Input method

Character encoding is the process of interpreting bytes to readable characters. UTF-8 is the dominant encoding since 2009 and is promoted as a de-facto standard [1].

UTF-8

Terminal

The following lists some terminals that support UTF-8:

• gnustep-terminal
• konsole
• mlterm
• rxvt-unicode
• st
• VTE-based terminals
• xterm - Run with the argument -u8 or configure resource xterm*utf8: 2.

Gnome-terminal or rxvt-unicode

You need to launch these applications from a UTF-8 locale or they will drop UTF-8 support. Enable the en_US.UTF-8 locale (or your local UTF-8 alternative) per the instructions above and set it as the default locale, then reboot.

Troubleshooting

• Use mp3unicode for fixing encoding problems with mp3 files.

Incorrect encoding for extracted files

Old versions of Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) use different encoding for the content of compressed files. To unzip use the command:

$ unzip -O CP936 file.zip