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Ali Razmdideh
Asked: 2017-08-30 11:43:43 +0800 CST

How to install telegram-cli with Persian/Arabic support

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I want to install telegram-cli in Ubuntu 17.04 AMD64. So I use this commands:

sudo snap install telegram-cli

But it not support Persian/Arabic letters. All Persian/Arabic letters has been messed up. And I can't type any Persian/Arabic characters.

And here is the question, How can I solve this problem.

command-line

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your issue has two reason, first one is gnome-terminal not supported Persian. And the second one is snap not supported Persian.

    You can solve this problem, with this ways:

    First way (easy way):

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ali.r/telegram-cli
sudo apt update
sudo apt install telegram-cli

    This PPA has packages for Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10. And install konsole alongside of telegram-cli, which is support Persian language.

    So you can run konsole and then run telegram-cli on it. As you can see it support Persian completely.

    Second way (hard way):

    Install dependency:

    sudo apt install konsole make git libreadline-dev libconfig-dev libssl-dev lua5.2 liblua5.2-dev lua-lgi libevent-dev libjansson-dev libpython-dev

    Download sources from github:

    git clone --recursive https://github.com/vysheng/tg.git

    Configure and compile it:

    cd tg
./configure
make

    And make a symbolic link to its binary:

    sudo ln /bin/telegram-cli /usr/local/bin

    And you can use telegram-cli easily in konsole for Persian support.

    Optional:

    You can make a launcher for this package.

    So run this command:

    sudo nano /usr/share/applications/telegramcli.desktop

    And paste this contents to that file.

    [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Telegram Cli
Comment=Command-line interface for Telegram messenger
Exec=konsole --noclose -e 'telegram-cli --enable-msg-id'
Icon=terminal
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=TelegramCli
Type=Application
Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;Qt;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tg;

    And run this command:

    sudo chmod a+x /usr/share/applications/telegramcli.desktop

    So you can run telegram-cli from applications menu.

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