[Solved] xdg-user-dirs strange characters

I've recently installed Gnome 3 on my new brand Arch Linux installation and I'm using xdg-user-dirs to have my common dirs under ~
I'm not English so xdg-user-dirs is translating my dirs for me to Catalan language, however it is doing it badly, for example the Music dir wich in Catalan is translated as Música appears renamed as MÃºsica, it seems that xdg doesn't like accents at all
Any solution?
P.D.: Gnome 3 rulez, but is extremely hard to personalise.
Last edited by 0x77D (2011-05-07 14:00:46)

Doubt this is anything to do with xdg, and almost certainly to do with your locale settings. How are you viewing the files, some apps may also not be unicode aware. I always use urxvt when when diagnosing locale issues. How do the folder names look in urxvt?

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Server2      Reg_SZ    ServerName3
etc.
What is showing now, is the original list of servers, with 10 or so new ones that repeat the server names that were already there followed by strange characters. There were 10 extra entries in this particular persons drop down list. We deleted them from the Registry and she was good for a few minutes and then they came back!! Anybody seen this before? We are running 11.1.2.1 of the Oracle Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in. Excel 2010. Windows 7. She is also using the In2HypEssbase ribbon, but so are many others, and she is the only one experiencing this problem.
Thanks,
Mike

Sorry, I forgot to mention that we did delete them from the registry and they did disappear from the drop down list. But a little while later it happened again! They seem to keep coming back and we don't know why. Again, she is the only person in the company that has had this issue. I have had her shutdown everything and reboot her pc with no luck as well, just to make sure there wasn't something quirky going on in the memory of the pc.
Mike

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Hello! I am writing my uni task. For that I downloaded a .pdf document from my university, which has text boxes for me to fill in. I do not know how/with which program this file was created. I first tried dealing with it using the Windows 8 Reader app. Several times, when I switched from the document to the Desktop and back, all my text was converted into strange characters. I started saving the document before switching, and this seemed to solve the problem at first. But then at some point I saved and closed it, and when I opened it the next time, only the box I modified last (with an essay) was converted into strange characters. When I copy it somewhere, the text does not appear. I tried opening the thing with Adobe Reader. It does not convert anything into weird symbols, but the ones from the previous time remain. Is there any way I can get the information back?
Here's the whole 'strange character' bit:
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The document: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/71fb561e-78a2-44ae-8bd6-9df6520e9d1b
The box I was talking about is the very last one.
The Adobe ReaderI started using recently is version XI; the one I used when I started editing the document was Windows 8 Reader app by Microsoft, version 6.2.8516.0.

Google search displays strange characters before search, firefox 3.6.7, ubuntu 10.04

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strange characters below:
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== ?

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I am a linux noob. So the answer to this is probably very obvious, but I haven't found it through googling, searching these forums or the arch wiki. I am having the same problem with most of my applications actually. The problem is that my firefox personal settings are not saving. When I reboot all of the addons are gone, the tabs are back on top, and everything is reset as if this were the first time I've run the program. I'm having a similar problem with lxpanel. I suspect it has something to do with post-installation home directory config files and not knowing what to do for each program. The only setup I've done for firefox is # yaourt -S firefox-esr. A whereis firefox-esr yields only /usr/bin/firefox-esr. Just the executable file itself I guess.
Although the arch wiki firefox page doesn't seem to specifically mention losing all settings there is something about setting a download location that caught my eye: XDG directories:
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I am not using a desktop environmnt. Just (for the moment) pekwm, lxpanel, and idesk. Presumably that's part of the problem. That going modular is much more difficult for a Linux noob. If I were using kde or gnome I'm guessing a lot of this post-installation application setup would be done for me automatically.
edit: I just found this information on the location of the firefox profile in linux. It says that profile folders are located in "~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile folder>". At first I thought I didn't have this folder, but I do. So I'm not sure why the settings and addons are not saving.
Last edited by pariahdog (2012-12-26 16:13:54)

For next time: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Permissions
It might be a better idea to change permissions with "chown" : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Permissions#chown
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-12-26 17:01:45)

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When I copy Arabic text from MSQL 2005 to excel 2013, it is showing as strange characters.
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You can also try opening the PDF with preview, then doing a copy and paste to TextEdit and printing from there.
Adobe makes it easier, but you do have software to accomplish this.
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