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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.