Re: Changes to file loading and saving

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 29 December 2015 at 05:23, Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru> wrote:
> Also I found another regression with loading files in meld master, that is not a meld's source bug, but 
> still is a regression from 3.15.1 in a user point of view. GtkSourceView has a longstanding problem with 
> analyzing only first 8KB of file while determining encoding - it's 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598818
>
> So for files that have first 8KB ascii-compatible, the encoding is determined as first-in-encodings-list 
> regardless of the folowing content.
> While working on huge source files with a small number of comments in native language that are not in first 
> 8KB encoding detection fails in current master.
> Autodection can't be helped with order settings - or different projects files are really in differnt 
> encodings.
> Not filing this as separate meld bug by now, because currently there is some work done in this area in  - 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtksourceview/log/?h=wip/uchardet-2

Yeah I think I'm just going to have to let this one go throught to
GtkSourceView. I don't think reimplementing any of this is a sane
choice for us.

However, there is an open bug for allowing manual encoding selection
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760311), which would at
least allow a workaround for the main problem here.

cheers,
Kai