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unicode for gedit

Asked by seng

i tried to open i csv file written in utf8 unicode via gedit

all it shows me are weird characters.

opening with openoffice utf8 unicode no problem.

anyway i can download unicode support for gedit?

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Lee Braiden (lee-braiden) said : 		#1

gedit (and gnome 2.x) supports unicode by default (and very well). You probably just need to set the type to utf8 when choosing the file in your open file dialog. It's also worth verifying that your file is *actually* utf8, as some tools are misleading, and it's easy to be mistaken about this.

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Lee Braiden (lee-braiden) said : 		#2

By the way... what do you mean by "weird characters"? If you mean little squares with numbers in them, that probably just means you don't have a font installed that has the characters needed. Otherwise, if it's showing other random characters, it's probably the load setting you've used, as I mentioned above.

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seng (hor-seng) said : 		#3

i messed up, sorry! But thanks for the fast reply i appreciate it.

I got another problem though related to unicode,
but I am going to open another post.

Thanks Lee Braiden