Re: [gedit-list] gedit v 3.18 can not display GBK/GBK2312/GBK18030

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 12:08:35AM +0800, MichaelLeung wrote:
> my desktop is archlinxu update to date
> since i upgrade my gedit from verions 2 to 3 , it can not display chinese any more.
> my gedit2 used to open chinese plain text file correctly
>
> i tried to use these command to fix it out
> gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.encodings auto-detected
> "['GB18030', 'UTF-8', 'CURRENT', 'ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-16']"
> but i got error "no such key ",
>
> then i check /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gedit.gschemea.xml , there is no longer auto-detected 
> key under org.gnome.gedit.preferences.encodings,
> seems gedit3 make a difference update or it is a bug?

You can configure the character encodings graphically in gedit 3.18.  In
the file chooser dialog, you have a combobox to choose the encoding.
Click on "Add or remove", then put your encoding as the first one, it'll
get the top priority.

Sébastien