Re: [gedit-list] File encoding detection

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno mer, 20/07/2005 alle 01.57 +0100, Noup ha scritto:
> I've been doing some research to find out how to detect the encoding of
> a text file. Though, it appears that GEdit successfully detects the
> encodings i use most for my files. So i would like to ask you, what
> method are you exactly using to detect the encoding of a file?
> 
> 

Actually gedit doesn't do full encoding detection: it just tries in
order utf-8, the current locale encoding and ISO-8859-15.

Beside if a particular encoding has been specified when opening a file,
the encoding is remembered when opening that file.

Paolo