Re: [Usability]gnome-terminal encoding UI

[Taco Witte <T C Witte phys uu nl>]

Havoc Pennington heeft geschreven:
> Taco Witte <T C Witte phys uu nl> writes:
>
>> Sorry if I'm wrong, but doesn't this apply to more applications
>> than web browsers and terminals?
>
>
> It does, but for most apps it's just when opening a plain text file.
> For that you can just have a menu in the file dialog to select an
> encoding.
>
> Most non-plain-text files have a defined encoding, thankfully.  All
> XML files do, and most binary formats do.
>
> Web browsers and terminals are a bit different because you often need
>  to change the encoding dynamically according to what you're looking
> at, due to broken legacy crap that doesn't have encoding tags.
>
That's true, yes. Let's hope that a system like Unicode will prove 
itself.. It would save a lot of effort.

> (When designing any new system, make sure you know the encoding of
> all text at all times, or you end up making the user sort it out...)
Yes, that would make it very user friendly.

Thank you and with regards,
Taco