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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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<link type="guide" xref="index#preferences"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="pref"/>
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<revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-02" status="candidate"/>
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<credit type="author copyright">
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<email>sindhus@live.in</email>
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<credit type="copyright editor">
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<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
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<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="copyright editor">
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<name>Michael Hill</name>
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<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
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<desc>Change to a different character set support.</desc>
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<title>Character encoding</title>
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<p>The default <em>character encoding</em> is usually UTF-8. You may want to
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change character encoding in <app>Terminal</app> if you:</p>
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<p>are working with file or directory names that use characters
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unavailable in your default encoding.</p>
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<p>use an external hard disk that uses different encoding from your
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<p>connect to a remote computer that uses a different encoding.</p>
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<section id="change-default-encoding">
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<title>Change the default character encoding</title>
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<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Terminal</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Set Character Encoding</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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<p>Select the desired character encoding.</p>
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<section id="add-encoding-menu-choices">
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<title>Add more options to the character encoding menu</title>
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<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Terminal</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Set Character Encoding</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Add or Remove…</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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<p>Browse from the available encodings.</p>
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<p>Select the encodings that you want to be added to the menu.</p>
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<p>Click <gui style="button">Close</gui> to quit the dialog and return
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to <app>Terminal</app>.</p>
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<p>Most modern operating systems now support and use UTF-8 character
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encoding by default.</p>