I have a file in UTF-8 that contains texts in multiple languages. A lot of it are people's names. I need to convert it to ASCII and I need the result to look as decent as possible. There are many ways how to approach converting from a wider encoding to a narrower one. The simplest transformation would be to replace all non-ASCII characters with some placeholder, like '_'. If I know the language the file is written in, there are additional possibilities, like romanization. What Unix tool or programming language library available on Unix can give me a decent (best-effort) conversion from UTF-8 to ASCII? Most of the text is in European, latin type based languages.

I have noticed the utility of this feature while typing on Android devices (notably with Gboard virtual keyboard) The same is available on iOS, in iPhones and iPads. I don't mean the use of a virtual keyboard on Linux, but the presence of a "suggestion strip" on the screen, as it is called in Gboard, while typing in Linux, no matter the virtual or physical character of the keyboard. Is this possible to have that with any text editor or at least some of them? Windows 10 already has that it seems .

I'm sorting *French* language words in some text files according to *frequency* with a focus on *insight* rather than statistical significance. The challenge is about preserving accented characters and dealing with the article forms in front of vowels(l', d') in the context of shaping word tokens for sorting. The topic of the most frequent words in a file takes many shapes( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ). So I put together this function using *GNU* utilities: compt1 () { for i in *.txt; do echo "File: $i" sed -e 's/ /\ /g' 1. I cannot provide source data but I can provide this file as an example. The words *heure* and *enfant* in the text provide an example. The former appears twice in the text including once as "l'heure", and helps validating if the command works or not. The latter appears in both singular and plural forms(*enfant*/*enfants*) and would benefit from being merged here.

I have a file of names, and I want to search within it, not caring too much about whether I have spelled the name ( that I am searching for ) correctly. I know that grep has quite a bit of functionality to search for a whole slew of similar strings within a file or stream, but as far as I am aware, it does not have functionality to correct for spelling errors, and even if it did, since these are names of people, they wouldn't be found inside a standard dictionary. Perhaps I can make my file of names into a special dictionary, and then use some standard spell checking tool? Of particular importance in this application is the ability to match similarly sounding words. For example: "jacob" should return "Jakob". Even better would be if inter-language similarities were also accounted for, so that "miguel" should match "Michael". Is this something that has been implemented already, or will I have to build my own?

I installed arabic fonts for Linux mint and i can switch between arabic and English, but it seems that mint cannot write arabic letters for example renaming a file or writing in any text-editor, when typing in arabic nothing appears. Note that it can read arabic letters and i was writting and reading arabic in other distributions like ubuntu or Gnome. What is the problem?

I need to use Indian Language 'Marathi' to prepare a presentation. But there is no Marathi or Hindi to set as document language. Probably therefore even when I try to change the properties (e.g., font size) of the Marathi text I enter, things happen like the font won't get bigger even if I try to change it. How can I deal with it?

I want to use this conky script: Conky Vision But I don't want the days of the week to be displayed in English. When I change my locale to another language, the day of today is displayed in that language but the 5-day names from the lower part of the image are always in English, even if I change the system language to something different. I have also changed the system language but those days are still displayed in English. What changes should I make to that script for it to follow the language I want? The conkyrc file has this content: # Conky settings # background yes update_interval 1 double_buffer yes no_buffers yes # Window specifications # gap_x 0 gap_y 0 alignment middle_middle minimum_size 600 460 maximum_width 600 own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below own_window_argb_visual yes own_window_argb_value 255 #border_margin 0 #border_inner_margin 0 #border_outer_margin 0 # Graphics settings # draw_shades no draw_outline no draw_borders no draw_graph_borders no # Text settings # use_xft yes xftalpha 0 xftfont Raleway:size=10 override_utf8_locale yes imlib_cache_size 0 # Color scheme # default_color FFFFFF color1 FFFFFF TEXT \ #-----WOIED-----# \ \ ${execi 300 curl -s "http://weather.yahooapis.fr/forecastrss?w=615702&u=c " -o ~/.cache/weather.xml}\ \ \ #---Clock+Date---# \ \ ${font Raleway:weight=Light :size=100}${alignc}${time %H}${alignc}:${alignc}${time %M} ${font Raleway:weight=Light:size=32}${voffset -60}${alignc}${time %A %B %d}\ \ \ #---High Temperatures---# \ \ ${font Raleway:size=20}\ ${voffset 76}${goto 40}${execi 300 grep "yweather:condition" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "temp=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*"}° ${font Raleway:weight=Light:size=14}\ ${voffset -28}${goto 160}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "high=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==2'}°\ ${goto 270}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "high=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==3'}°\ ${goto 380}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "high=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==4'}°\ ${goto 490}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "high=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==5'}°\ \ \ #---Low Temparatures---# \ \ ${font Raleway:weight=Light:size=10}\ ${voffset 48}${goto 210}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "low=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==2'}°\ ${goto 320}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "low=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==3'}°\ ${goto 430}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "low=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==4'}°\ ${goto 540}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "low=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==5'}°\ \ \ #---Name of the day---# \ \ ${font Raleway:weight=Light:size=14}\ ${voffset 30}${goto 60}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "day=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==1' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'}\ ${goto 170}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "day=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==2' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'}\ ${goto 280}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "day=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==3' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'}\ ${goto 390}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "day=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==4' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'}\ ${goto 500}${execi 300 grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "day=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==5' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'}\ \ \ #---Weather Icons---# \ \ ${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky-vision-icons/$(grep "yweather:condition" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "code=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*").png ~/.cache/weather-1.png}${image ~/.cache/weather-1.png -p 61,260 -s 32x32}\ \ ${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky-vision-icons/$(grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "code=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==2').png ~/.cache/weather-2.png}${image ~/.cache/weather-2.png -p 171,260 -s 32x32}\ \ ${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky-vision-icons/$(grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "code=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==3').png ~/.cache/weather-3.png}${image ~/.cache/weather-3.png -p 281,260 -s 32x32}\ \ ${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky-vision-icons/$(grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "code=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==4').png ~/.cache/weather-4.png}${image ~/.cache/weather-4.png -p 391,260 -s 32x32}\ \ ${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky-vision-icons/$(grep "yweather:forecast" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "code=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==5').png ~/.cache/weather-5.png}${image ~/.cache/weather-5.png -p 501,260 -s 32x32}${font}${voffset -46}\ It seems related to the file ~/.cache/weather.xml (more details on that here ). This file contains lines like: I guess, as indicated in a comment, the commands under ---Name of the day---# in .conkyrc are writing and updating the lines in ~/.cache/weather.xml posted above (containing names of days in English). But as I see those commands just relate to the "yweather:forecast", which might mean that the days in English are written as they are grabbed by curl from the yahoo weather English_US website, and that's why they are in English. But what intrigues me is that when I've first seen this conky was on [a Spanish site where all was in Spanish](http://entornosgnulinux.com/2014/03/02/conky-vision-en-elementary-os-luna/) . That PPA does not work anymore it seems. --- **I'm in elementary OS Freya (based on *ubuntu 14.04)**

It's easy to generate a strong password quickly using the system dictionary: $ for i in {1..4}; do shuf --head-count=1 /usr/share/dict/words; done Amelanchier whitecup ankhs antispasmodics However, this isn't exactly the easiest list of words to remember. Is there a package or file available for getting either the **N most used words** (for example Simplified English) or a list of words either **ordered by popularity** or with a **popularity index** so I can choose how many to use?

I want to write a Script that picks a random English word from /usr/share/dict/words, translates it into German, display both of them for a certain amount of time and repeat the process. I only know the beginning part and do not know how to use a word to word translation in the shell: watch -n5 sh -c 'cat /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n1 | .....'