On Sunday, November 7, 2010, Ted-mason <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does gedit not open binary files? Often legacy word processor files > are in binary form, but the text is often embedded in the binary in > plain text form, and can be recovered by copying the plain text out of > the binary file out of the fie. > > -- > gedit is unable to open text files > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/671992 > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to gedit > in ubuntu. > > Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gedit > > I cannot open text files in gedit. It keeps saying that the character > encoding is wrong. The text files were created in DOS or OS/2. I have tried > adding different encodings to the menu with no effect. Is there any way that > I can turn off automatic detection of character encoding and force gedit to > open the files. This is a totally broken piece of software, why is it > included in Ubuntu? > Regards, > Ted Mason > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 > Package: gedit 2.30.3-1ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4 > Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Architecture: i386 > Date: Sat Nov 6 23:42:10 2010 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: gedit > > >
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