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I have ububntu 12.04 installed. and despite i installed the arabic language from langauge support, when I open an application all the arabic language in its interface are displayed as queston mark. how to solve this problem

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  • possible duplicate http://askubuntu.com/questions/648823/how-to-read-ansi-encoded-files-in-the-right-way – Frank Schrijver May 17 '16 at 17:28
  • @FrankSchrijver the link you provided does not offer a solution as the post is mainly about how to read a file in different encodings, while my case is, the interface of a software is in unreadable text – Elpharaoh May 17 '16 at 17:46
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/350213/ubuntu-13-04-cant-read-arabic-texts this one suggests "suggest downloading the language packs straight from System Settings--->Language Support--->Install/Remove Language" – Frank Schrijver May 17 '16 at 17:53
  • @FrankSchrijver in my question i ststed that i installed the required langauge pack for arabic – Elpharaoh May 17 '16 at 18:50
  • yes im sorry. have you tried changing your locale? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale – Frank Schrijver May 17 '16 at 18:56
  • @FrankSchrijver actually i dont know who to do it..would please tell me – Elpharaoh May 17 '16 at 19:04

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Not all locale's are available so we must generate them:

sudo locale-gen ar_SA.UTF-8

Change the locale 

update-locale LANG=ar_SA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX

then reboot

Frank Schrijver
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