[Geany-devel] Default ASCII charset for open files

[Алексей Антипов]

-----Original Message-----
From: Enrico Tr?ger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
To: geany-devel at uvena.de
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:53:03 +0200
Subject: Re: [Geany-devel] Default ASCII charset for open files

> On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:12:00 +0400, Alexey wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >I have recently faced a problem with charset detection in Geany. I
> >have a UTF-8 locale on my Ubuntu machine, but my company uses mostly
> >Windows, so a majority of text files is in CP1251. My issue is very
> >similar to that one: http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2007-June/001152.html
> >
> >Since then, there is an option to "force" all files open in some
> >selected charset (e.g. 1251). IMHO it's not absolutely convenient,
> >because it completely ignores all other settings, especially BOM. 
> >
> >My idea is to add a selected charset not as "forced", but as
> >"preferred ASCII" (meaning that if file is non-Unicode, then it should
> >be opened using "charset"). As many Linux distros are now moving
> >towards Unicode as default system locale, that would be a convenient
> >and a predictable behaviour.
> >
> >By default, Geany takes the first (by order) charset for non-Unicode
> >files (that's ISO-8859-1). I have created a patch to allow user select
> >that ASCII charset. Please take a look at this patch and tell me if
> >that is a good idea.
> 
> It's an awesome idea!
> Thanks a lot, patch applied and committed in SVN r4294.
> 
> I left out the part updating po/ru.po because I chose slightly other
> description texts in the preferences dialog. I hope Frank will take
> care of merging your changes with the existing strings :).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Enrico
> 
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Glad to hear that:)
Please note, that aplying my patch "as is" would change previous behaviour that was added on this request: http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2007-June/001152.html. If you want to keep both, you'll need to change settings interface adding another charset selector.
Also I had an idea (for which I unfortunately have no time now) to remove all Unicode charsets from the selector (so that user would be able to select only non-Unicode charset as default for non-Unicode files).

Regards,
Alexey