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    Question Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    Hello, When I download a file that a Window user has uploaded and contains a .txt file with greek inside it, I cannot read it (the words look like chinese) . Is there any command out there or something I can do for this? Thx in advance!

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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    Well, you could install Greek language support. Just go to System->Administration->Language Support.

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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    Nothing seem to happen


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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    Am I a bad person if I decide to bump this?

    I stopped having this problem because all my friends switched to Linux, but now, in university, there are plenty of persons using Windows and I have to co-operate with them.

    I cannot read the txt files they generate in Notepad containing Greek characters. I have installed the Greek Language Support and I've set the Gedit's language to Greek.

    The problem persists.

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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    Have you tried installing Wine and then opening the .txt file with its Notepad ?

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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    No difference at all:



    Thanks for trying to help !

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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    most likely encoding issue
    utf8 (linux) vs windows-1253 (windows)

    Open file via File->Open... and set win-1253 as the encoding to be used.
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    Re: Gedit does not read greek - Plz Help me...

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaphell View Post
    most likely encoding issue
    utf8 (linux) vs windows-1253 (windows)

    Open file via File->Open... and set win-1253 as the encoding to be used.
    That's all folks!

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