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I use often one of two character encodings for plain text files: UTF-8 and
(windows) cp1250.
I use Gedit to edit my plain text files and I have set these my prefered
encodings in Gedit,
so I can select (only) from "Autodetect", "UTF-8" and "Windows 1250" in open
dialog in Gedit.
The problem is that autodetection fails every time when the text file is in
cp1250.
This is even worse when I open this file by clicking it in nautilus because I
cannot choose
to open it as "Windows 1250" encoding.
I have understand that encoding autodetection is not easy thing and it may not
be 100% succesful
for all encodings used around the world.
But there could be a solution: Have another autodetection mode that try to
choose the right encoding
only from some limited list (user definable) of encodings. The list could be
the same list of encodings
user selected to use in open/close dialogs. So e.g. in my case I would see in
Gedit open dialog these
four items in encoding combobox: "Autodetect (global)", "Autodetect (user
defined)", "UTF-8" and "Windows 1250".
(May be somebody can find better titles than "global" and "user defined".)
* "Autodetect (global)" would do autodetection just like today's autodetection
works.
* "Autodetect (user defined)" does only try to detect "UTF-8" and "Windows
1250" so it detect "Windows 1250" easily
and probably 100% successfully.
This feature may need some Gtk/Glib work - I do not know how
autodetection is implemented at all.
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Hinted encoding autodetection to solve autodetection fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184745
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