Sublime Text 3 is not showing Unicode characters correctly under Ubuntu 13.10

Question

In Sublime Text 3, unicode characters are not shown correctly. In gedit it works fine. I tried saving the document as UTF-8, Tried setting default encoding to UTF-8 but stil

Answer 1

Go to Preferences > Settings > User.

Add this setting:

"default_encoding" : "utf-8",

Answer 2

Sublime doesn't support Complex Text Layout at all I'm afraid. That means you don't even get proper Arabic or Hebrew, let alone Sinhala.

Hopefully this will be added some day but it's not a straightforward feature. As Sublime is focused on code rather than natural language it might not be amongst the author's priorities.

Answer 3

Sublime Text 3 should support many utf-8 locales now.

If Xuwei Khan's answer doesn't work for you, then use this command:

iconv -f Windows-1253 -t utf-8 input.txt > output.txt

Or replace Windows-1253 with an an other iso locale suitable for your language needs.