Public bug reported:
Hello,
In gedit's open file dialog box, there is an option for choosing the
character encoding. The default option is "Automatically Detected" which
I am afraid it doesn't always work.
I am attaching a file (gr.srt) with encoding (Greek) ISO-8859-7. I verified its
encoding using the chardet utility in the terminal and I am also attaching
chardet.png that shows exactly this. If you open this file (gr.srt) with gedit
and encoding auto detection and you leave your mouse over the respective file's
tab, a hint will appear reporting the Western ISO-8859-15 as the detected
encoding. Of course as a result, the file's content is unreadable. (Attached
geditWrong.png)
If you open the same file by choosing (Greek) ISO-8859-7 in the open file
dialog box, the respective hint properly shows the correct encoding and the
file is readable. (Attached geditCorrect.png).
Bear in mind that once you have opened the file with ISO-8859-7, it will
always open correctly even if you choose "Automatically Detected". It
seems that gedit remembers your option and doesn't actually try to
detect the actual encoding. In order to reset to the initial problematic
behavior, you have to manually select (Western) ISO-8859-15 once. It
seems to me that it is very probable that this is another issue but yet
related and it will also help you to not get confused in your tests.
Finally, I would like to grab this opportunity and ask you to add an
encoding choice in gedit's menu because in the open file dialog, it is
quite "hidden" in the sense that most people open files by double
clicking them. I even found this option on the net, it didn't even cross
my mind that such an option would be available there. Also, I have found
quite many frustration reports on the Internet from people who use non
Latin alphabets, I have even found a bug report that was closed because
the reporter unfortunately failed to provide the required evidence and
instructions.
Thank you very much.
P.S
Since I am only allowed to attach one file, note that all files I have
mentioned are included in geditEncoding.tar.gz
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: encoding gedit
** Attachment added: "geditEncoding.tar.gz"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176319/+attachment/3664642/+files/geditEncoding.tar.gz
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