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gedit package

gedit cannot automatically recognise document character encoding

Bug #557571 reported by igi
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gedit

In my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx beta1 installation, gedit does not automatically select the proper character encoding.
If I try to open a text document created with Windows (ISO 8859-15) the error status bar is shown instead of opening the document. So I have to manually select the original encoding and then the document is opened.

Till Ubuntu 09.10 (Karmic) GEdit worked properly.

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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Package: gedit 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Tags: natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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igi (igor-cali) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, could you add an example to the bug?

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

it's like similar to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598818

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igi (igor-cali) wrote :

Here the screenshot attachment.
This is how gedit lloks when I try to open txt files created with Windows (different encoding).
At that point, selecting UTF8 encoding from the drop-down list (the one localized with the label "Riconoscimento automatico), and then clicking on the retry button, the document is properly shown.

This manual selection task has not to be done in Karmic.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

sorry if the previous comment was not clear but an example would be a file having the issue not a screenshot

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igi (igor-cali) wrote :

Wooops, sorry ;>)
Here it is!

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gedit:
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gedit:
importance: Unknown → Medium
igi (igor-cali)
tags: added: maverick
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igi (igor-cali) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected natty running-unity
description: updated
description: updated
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Alberto Torres (kungfoobar) wrote :

Also, gedit should open text files even if it can't recognize the encoding. If there is a bogus character in the file, that renders the file unopenable in gedit! The default and frequently the ONLY plaintext editor w/gui in ubuntu!

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Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote :

I agree that there should be at least an option to "open as ascii-bytes" or something.

@Alberto: If you want your wish to be heard you should open a new bug report about that - preferably on gnome.org directly (if there is not already one). As alternative try the "scite" text editor.

dino99 (9d9)
tags: removed: maverick
tags: removed: natty
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Changed in gedit:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)
tags: added: trusty
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gedit:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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