[Geany] thanks and question (multi-encodings)

[Francois Cami]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:06:26 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:50:23 +0200, Francois Cami <fcami at winsoft.fr>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:39:45 +0200
> > Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:09:57 +0400, Fedor Fedorovich Lejepekov
> > > <FFL-Public at Yandex.Ru> wrote:
> > >
> > > > + I found menu item File->Reload as, it's have that
> > > > functionality, which i need now. :)
> >
> > I hadn't found that either - thanks. However, either I'm doing
> > something wrong or encoding selection is broken on win32, for
> > Russian (1251) at least. However, it works for Polish (1250). Font
> > is set to Verdana, which should work (works with Notepad).
> Interesting. On my Windows XP(German) cp1251 works but koi8-r doesn't
> work(works well under Linux). Strange thing, I guess this is related
> to the Windows locale and/or to the Windows port of GLib.

I can't comment on that :)

> > > For all who are interested in the problem, the sent files can be
> > > found on http://www.uvena.de/tmp/geany_koir_test_files.tar.bz2.
> > >
> > > I did some testing with Anjuta 2.0, Gedit and Kate.
> > > Anjuta and Gedit can't detect correctly the encoding of test.koi8
> > > and test.cp1251 but at least Gedit can display it correctly when
> > > the encoding is specified explicitly. And this can also be done
> > > with Geany either by using "Reload As" or by specifying the
> > > encoding the file open dialog(added in r919). Kate has a special
> > > problem: it offers also a drop down box in the file open dialog
> > > to choose an encoding but it seems that it doesn't work. Maybe a
> > > bug, I don't know.
> >
> > Kate works as expected on FC4 with the test files, at least.
> Ok, maybe I did something wrong. But your Kate also doesn't auto
> detect the encoding, does it?

I didn't test that yesterday, I only tried selecting the encoding in
the "open file" dialog before encoding. 
However, I've just tested again today without selecting the encoding -
and it auto-detected it just fine.
package is kdebase-3.5.3-0.2.fc4

> > Would it be possible to have a Geany r919 (or later) win32 build ?
> > I'm very interested in using and testing this on win32.
> Of course, please see
> http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2006-October/000506.html.

Thanks a lot ! Will test today.

> > Feature request : being able to associate specific file extensions
> > (ex: .rc , .xml, .c) with a specific encoding (respectively
> > windows-1250, utf-8, ansi - these are only examples) in the
> > preferences.
> Hmm, maybe. But .c? Are you sure you want to write source code in an
> non-Utf-8 encoding? By the way, Geany doesn't differ between Ascii and
> Utf-8 encoding because Ascii is a subset of Utf-8 and so if a file has
> an Ascii encoding it is always validate Utf-8.

This was only an example, since I've never needed anything else than
ISO-8859-1 (basic western) or just plain ascii for C. UTF-8 is
perfectly fine, though.
I'll see what I can do about this extension<=>encoding thing next
weekend, I have my hands full right now.

> Regards,
> Enrico

Thanks again...

Best,
François