Troubleshooting of garbled Chinese characters on Mint (Ubuntu) Linux Terminals

Mint (Ubuntu) Linux terminal Chinese display garbled problem solution 0. install zhcon 1 sudo apt-get install zhcon solution: 1. ubuntu default Chinese character encoding for zh_CN.UTF-8, this can be seen in/etc/environment: sudo gedit/etc/environment can see the following content: PATH = "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin: /usr/games "LANG =" zh_CN.UTF-8 "LANGUAGE =" zh_CN: zh: en_US: en "the second line is the default Chinese character encoding. Note: you can modify the default Chinese character encoding here, for example, zh_CN.GBK. 2. Add Chinese character encoding method 1. directly run the locale-gen command on the terminal: sudo locale-gen zh_CN.GB18030 to add the Chinese character set. After that, go to/usr/lib/locale/. There is a folder named zh_CN.gb18030, and enter the command gedit/var/lib/locales/supported on the Super Terminal. d/local. You can find another row in the file: zh_CN.GB18030 GB18030. It indicates that the application is successfully added. 2. modify/var/lib/locales/supported. d/local file on the terminal, enter the command line sudo gedit/var/lib/locales/supported. d/local can see the following content: 1zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-82en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in the end of the file to add the Chinese Character Set 1zh_CN.GBK GBK save and exit. Enter the command in the terminal: 1 sudo dpkg-reconfigure localesGenerating locales... en_AU.UTF-8... doneen_BW.UTF-8... doneen_CA.UTF-8... doneen_DK.UTF-8... doneen_GB.UTF-8... doneen_HK.UTF-8... doneen_IE.UTF-8... doneen_IN.UTF-8... doneen_NZ.UTF-8... doneen_PH.UTF-8... doneen_SG.UTF-8... doneen_US.UTF-8... doneen_ZA.UTF-8... doneen_ZW.UTF-8... donezh_CN.GBK... donezh_CN.UTF-8... up-to-datezh_HK.UTF-8... donezh_SG.UTF-8... Donezh_TW.UTF-8... doneGeneration complete. You can generate the corresponding file:/usr/lib/locale/zh_CN.gbk/finally restart ubuntu.