https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36313
--- Comment #22 from markling <[email protected]> --- 1) User documentation would be very helpful for this patch. 2) I would also like to propose a modification. -- 1) Users are most unlikely to know potential options enough even to discover the operation of this function by trial and error. If the documentation is available somewhere, it has not made it to me. I can see no mention of it in the man page. I am unable to put it to use without help: batch-convert some 60 excel sheets from potentially variable number of unknown windows-encodings to utf-8. 2) This function would be improved greatly it it did as much as possible without being told specifically which encoding/format to input. This is crucial for users. It is possible, after all, to read a file into the OpenOffice GUI without knowing before-hand what the format/encoding is. If you want to batch-convert a collection of source files from say, a public body's open data scheme, those would have been collated from a variety of sources over a period of years into a single group of files. Their encodings would be differing and most likely unspecified. This would not matter if the LibreOffice batch convert function used whatever the GUI used to read files without having to be told in advance how they were made. The batch function might be unable to detect all types/encodings reliably. This would not matter. If only it did the detection as well as the GUI, it could report/pass over/exit on files that could not be detected. But arguably the majority would be handled automatically. And the majority of users then might simply use this tool. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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