I’ve been facing a similar issue. For me the problem was that the
encoding of the file had changed since it was last opened with Gedit
(from WINDOWS-1252 to UTF-8). As I had manually set the encoding when
first opening the file, Gedit had saved this information and tried to
reuse it the next time I opened the file after the encoding change; this
resulted in said error message.
To fix the problem, I had to remove the saved encoding information from
the gvfs metadata like so:
gvfs-set-attribute --type unset MY_FILE.txt 'metadata::gedit-
encoding'
I have posted more information on this at
<http://askubuntu.com/a/279820/137449>.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067915
Title:
gedit can't open a txt file
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I have a txt file with a list of pages of different sites (related to my
work). It is generated by Firefox plugin "Webmaster Sape".
When I try to open it with gedit I see an error message: "Unknown error:
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input".
But for ex. Geany and LibreOffice Writer open it without any problems.
File is attached.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gedit 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 18 00:40:24 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121006)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ru_UA:ru
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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