Garbled texts on WSL GUI application

Question

Non-English characters are garbled on the WSL GUI application.

For example, I created a text file that contains foreign characters like this:

$ touch yoi.txt
$ echo "English한국어日本語" > yoi.txt
$ gedit yoi.txt

Any suggestions?

Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. — Community, Dec 10 '21 at 17:32
Does this answer your question? [UTF8 characters in windows 10 bash terminal](https://superuser.com/questions/1108443/utf8-characters-in-windows-10-bash-terminal) — harrymc, Dec 10 '21 at 17:40
@harrymc Doubtful. That question is for terminal-based apps. This particular question is about garbled text in WSLg (gedit). — NotTheDr01ds, Dec 10 '21 at 20:40

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '21 at 21:14

That's not really garbled – that's just how Linux programs display characters that they don't have any fonts for. The hexadecimal digits inside each box correspond to Unicode codepoints for the character. For example:

한 is U+D55C
국 is U+AD6D

You should install more fonts in your Linux distribution. If you're using Ubuntu, sudo apt install fonts-noto-cjk. The Noto font set supports many languages.

Or if you know that a specific font is needed, you can copy .ttf or .otf files to ~/.local/share/fonts/ in Linux. You could even copy all the Windows fonts from C:\Windows\Fonts if you want.

Garbled texts on WSL GUI application

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