I received a ZIP file from a Japanese customer.
When I try to unzip it the file and folders names are messed up:
$ unzip ~/Downloads/【新入荷ECM】資料.zip
...
inflating: БyРVУ№Й╫ECMБzОСЧ┐/123_ГЖБ[ГXГPБ[ГX.xlsx
What is the problem, and how to avoid it?
I had some problems with subtitle files in video omxplayer. To solve it I had to convert from windows-1250 to UTF-8 encoding. My question is, how can I see for some specific file which encoding is used?
I have some files that Ubuntu can't read it ( ANSI encoding ) but Windows can read it well.
When I open it in gedit or notepad++ it seems like this :
Êã ÇáÊÍæíá áÜÜ
How can I make Ubuntu read ANSI encoded files well?
I frequently encounter text files (such as subtitle files in my native language, Persian) with character encoding problems. These files are created on Windows, and saved with an unsuitable encoding (seems to be ANSI), which looks gibberish and unreadable, like this:
In Windows, one can fix this easily using Notepad++ to convert the encoding to UTF-8, like below:
And the correct readable result is like this:
I've searched a lot for a similar solution on GNU/Linux, but unfortunately the suggested solutions (e.g this question) don't work. Most of all, I've seen people suggest iconv and recode but I have had no luck with these tools. I've tested many commands, including the followings, and all have failed:
$ recode ISO-8859-15..UTF8 file.txt
$ iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t UTF-8 file.txt > out.txt
$ iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 file.txt > out.txt
None of these worked!
I'm using Ubuntu-14.04 and I'm looking for a simple solution (either GUI or CLI) that works just as Notepad++ does.
One important aspect of being "simple" is that the user is not required to determine the source encoding; rather the source encoding should be automatically detected by the tool and only the target encoding should be provided by the user. But nevertheless, I will also be glad to know about a working solution that requires the source encoding to be provided.
If someone needs a test-case to examine different solutions, the above example is accessible via this link.
I have the problem described in this Q&A. Probably from quite old linux distros or from windows I have several files with broken filenames. ls displays a "?" instead of the broken character. I successfully renamed some of these files, but I don't know if I've found all of them.
Is there any method to find all affected files?