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Unrecognized Characters Solution of Google Earth in Ubuntu 12.04

Using Google Earth on Ubuntu 12.04 with your locale setting as Chinese(zh_CN.UTF-8) will cause the unrecognized characters problem.

I tried some solutions online, such as removing the “libQt*“ files under “opt/google/earth/free/“ directories but it didn’t work on my Ubuntu 12.04 environment.

Here is my solution.

Mount Remote SSH Server as Local Directory via 'sshfs'

这个想法的灵感来自这篇文章。该文提到了在Mac OS下使用FUSE for OS XMacfusion实现了“将远程服务器的文件系统映射成本地文件系统的一部分(通过SSH)”。

于是很自然地,我相信在Linux下也有对应的软件可以做同样的事情。

This idea was inspired by this article, which mentioned that the author used FUSE for OS X and Macfusion to map the remote server as a local directory via SSH.