Ok, but I'm not sure how this solves the problem of determining the 
format of a file with an unknown extension?

On 10/13/2011 2:24 AM, edgar.sol...@web.de wrote:
> On 13.10.2011 01:02, Martin Davis wrote:
>> One reason for having the double choice of both format and file name is
>> that there are formats (such as GML) which don't have a standard file
>> extension that can be used to drive the choice of format.
>>
>> Also, in JUMP originally we supported a zipped shapefile concept.  It
>> had the extension .zip, but was read by the Shapefile driver.
>>
>> One thing that could be do would be to use the file extension to drive
>> the initial format setting, but allow it to be overridden for files with
>> non-specific extensions.
>>
> How about a checkbox 'filter by extension', which can be disabled allowing to 
> select any file with any selection in the format dropdown?
>
> ..ede
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