[Geany] Does not re-open a non-UTF-8 file on startup

[Andreas Tscharner]

On 24.10.2011 15:47, Lex Trotman wrote:
>> Hello Lex,
>> Thank you for your patience...
>
> No problem, thanks for yours, I'm sorry for the time this is taking,
> but since this does not misbehave here I have to get you to try
> everything :)
>
>>>

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>> Default encoding for new files is: UTF-8
>> Default encoding for non-unicode files is: None
>> (The checkbox between these two options is set)
>
> All ok, has no effect on loading since it is none.
>
>>
>> As far as I can remember, I previously set the default encoding for new
>> files to UTF-8, but I am not sure about the other setting...
>>>
>>> 2. what is your machine locale
>>>
>>> Both the above affect the order it tries encodings, then its in an
>>> implementation defined order
>>
>> I don't know exactly. It is a Win 7 Professional German version, so I
>> suppose the locale is CP1252
>
> Have a look at the end of the Geany version line in the help->debug
> messages (line one or two usually) it should have a language.encoding

10:14:48: Geany INFO		: Geany 0.21, German_Switzerland.1252


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>> 13:25:41: Geany INFO            : Trying to convert 191588 bytes of data
>> from CP1252 into UTF-8.
>> 13:25:41: Geany INFO            : Converted from CP1252 to UTF-8.
>> 13:25:41: Geany INFO            : J:\QUARTIS\_dev\locale\QrtRes_de.rc : Conf
>> (CP1252)
>>
>
> If this is the only "trying..." message then I would expect it gets
> the cp1252 from the locale, the question is why is there a difference
> between the menu encoding and the status line, both should be set from
> the same memory location.
>
> You might also look at file->properties and see which it agrees with.

Encoding: CP1252

Best regards
	Andreas
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Andreas Tscharner   andy at vis.ethz.ch   ICQ-No. 14356454