Re: [gedit-list] Converting encodings

[Jon Lapham <lapham extracta com br>]

Paolo Maggi wrote:
> > Any suggestions on how to convert text files to UTF8 such that they 
> > continue to work correctly with gedit?  It is almost as though gedit 
> > caches the encoding of files it has previously opened.
>
> Yes, as you said, gedit caches the encoding of files it has previously
> opened. 
> You could easily solve your problem setting the encoding of the file to
> UTF-8 while opening the file (you can do it in the open file dialog).
>
> Lemme know if my suggestion does not solve your problem.

Paolo-

Works great, thanks.

I have been using gedit for years, and I had never seen (or used) the 
file->open dialog!  I always "gedit FILE" from the command line. 
According to "gedit --help" there is no way to specify the encoding on 
the command line... would that be a worthy feature request?

Thanks again.

-Jon

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