[Github-comments] [geany] Read standard input as new file (#780)

[Matthew Brush]

>  if geany can't heuristically tell the encoding from contents like other files (does it do that? [...]

Naively, and with a tendency towards common 8-bit encodings like ASCII, Latin-1, UTF-8, etc. Probably the only accurate detection is for files with a UTF byte order marker at the front and maybe XML files if they declares encoding before any non-ASCII characters..

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