[Geany-Users] How to recognize encoding?

[Enrico Tröger]

Hi,

>How do I get Geany to recognize (Linux text) files
>as UTF-8 encoded?
>
>The files in question are legacy Windows txt files,
>written in French (i.e. with lots of accents)
>which I have converted to   mode: Unix (LF)   encoding:UTF-8
>by a Perl script that does
>
>     "iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 --output=$tempfile $infile"
>and
>     "dos2unix -n -f $tempfile $outfile"

-f for 'force binary files'? Geany can't handle binary files.


>It appears that if the infile has a final \x{OA} character,
>then this arrives in the outfile.

\x0A ist \n, hard to imagine this really confuses Geany that much.

>
>I can open these files with JEdit or Kate, no problem.
>But Geany's behaviour with such files is inconsistent.
>
>Sometimes Geany refuses to do anything,
>saying "... does not look like a text
>file, or the file encoding is not supported",
>
>Sometimes Geany renders the file  using encoding
>UTF-16 LE, which makes it look as if written in
>Mandarin Chinese.
>
>And sometimes Geany opens such 'problem' files correctly,
>as UTF-8. So far as I can see, this tends to be the
>case if there are already several txt files open.
>
>I have tried putting the line /* geany_encoding=utf-8 */
>as line 1 of a problem file, but that does not seem to
>have any consistent effect.

Without having a look at the code, I was sure in-file headers would
take precedence over guessed encodings.

Anyway, it's quuite hard to help here without knowing about what files
we are talking here.
Could you share some of the problematic files? If not possible in
public, at least via private mail?


Regards,
Enrico

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