Mini Shell
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<link type="guide" xref="index#preferences"/>
<revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-02" status="candidate"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Sindhu S</name>
<email>sindhus@live.in</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
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<desc>Change to a different character set.</desc>
<mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
<mal:name>Daniel Șerbănescu</mal:name>
<mal:email>daniel [at] serbanescu [dot] dk</mal:email>
<mal:years>2018</mal:years>
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<title>Character encoding</title>
<p>The default <em>character encoding</em> is usually UTF-8. You may want to
change character encoding in <app>Terminal</app> if you:</p>
<list>
<item>
<p>are working with file or directory names that use characters
unavailable in your default encoding.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>use an external hard disk that uses different encoding from your
system.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>connect to a remote computer that uses a different encoding.</p>
</item>
</list>
<section id="change-encoding">
<title>Change the character encoding</title>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Terminal</gui>
<gui style="menuitem">Set Character Encoding</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select the desired character encoding.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>
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