Re: [gedit-list] File encoding detection

[Noup <lucky13 mail telepac pt>]

Paolo Borelli wrote:

> Il giorno mer, 20/07/2005 alle 09.38 +0100, Noup ha scritto:
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> > Ok, i see... so the reason why it usually works for me is because my 
> > files are usually in utf8 or iso-8859-15 precisely.
> >
> > Though, when GEdit is "trying", how does it check if the file is in utf8 
> > or iso-8859-15?
> >
> >    
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> It checks with g_utf8_validate and if it fails it tries to convert it to
> utf-8 (since contents of GtkTextView must always be in utf-8).
> The relevant code is in gedit-document.c
>
> Paolo
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>  
Thank you for the pointers, i found them to be very usefull.


Pedro Castro

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