So I have a music collection that came from various places (East Asian, Indian, those European languages with accents and etc). The filenames are in the original language/character set.
When I launch an app like foobar2000, I can see squares that are used instead of the Japanese characters for the artist I'm looking at.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
As a test, I tried:
1. sudo apt install language-pack-ja* language-pack-gnome*ja*
2. changing Windows version to Windows10 in winecfg
and I still get the same issue in foobar2000.
Thanks
Ubuntu 18.04:Display all character sets (filenames) in app
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04:Display all character sets (filenames) in a
Start the app with the appropriate LANG variable. There are some examples on https://wiki.winehq.org/Testing_Languages.
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04:Display all character sets (filenames) in a
echo $LANG gives me en_US.UTF-8
so I tried:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe
LANG=en_US wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe
and this didn't solve my issue.
so I tried:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe
LANG=en_US wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe
and this didn't solve my issue.
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04:Display all character sets (filenames) in a
Of course setting the variable to what is was before wouldn't help...
Did you try setting it to "ja_JP.UTF-8"?
Did you try setting it to "ja_JP.UTF-8"?
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04:Display all character sets (filenames) in a
That worked but now I can't read/understand foobar2000 since the app interface is entirely in Japanese. I'm guessing this doesn't really solve my issue since I have files (music files) that uses various character sets (Chinese, Thai, Korean and etc)DarkShadow44 wrote:Of course setting the variable to what is was before wouldn't help...
Did you try setting it to "ja_JP.UTF-8"?
seems using LANG as "workaround" is not the ideal solution considering other apps (music tag editors) behaves differently when this is set to something other than English.
Would be nice to get the normal Windows behavior without messing around with locales and etc.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04:Display all character sets (filenames) in a
Try installing fonts with the needed characters to the wineprefix. Winetricks has several options for CJK fonts.