Re: Meld 3.11.0 and encoding

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 28 February 2014 21:31, Claudio Fischer <claudio fischer freenet de> wrote:
> in meld 1.8.4 I had the option "Encoding". Here I used "utf8 latin1".
>
> In meld 3.11.0 there is no "Encoding" options. It seems to use only utf8.
>
> By comparing some of my files I get the error message:
>
> "Could not read file"
>
> "file.cpp is not in encodings: ['utf8']"
>
> How do I set "Encoding" in meld 3.11.0?

There is no UI for it. You can set the encodings that will be tried in
Meld's 'detect-encodings' gsettings key.

cheers,
Kai