GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 407659
Autodetect encodings from open dialog list
Last modified: 2014-08-11 20:39:07 UTC
I have no idea why and havent found appropriate bug. There are two keys that control encodings: auto_detected = [UTF-8,CURRENT,ISO-8859-15,UTF-16] shown_in_menu = [WINDOWS-1251,KOI8R,CP866] shouldn't they be the same single key? It seems natural for me to autodetect exactly the same encodings shown in open dialog dropdown menu.
dunno... if a encoding gets autodetected why would I want to manually set it in the filechooser. The "auto_detected" is mostly there so that the translator can customize the default encodings tried in their locale... On the other hand I see your point: the filechooser would then become the UI to customize the encodings automatically tried when double clicking on a file. A potential problem is that the list specified in shown_in_menu could grow big and that would make opening a file slow. Gotta think more about this. Opinions and argumentations one way or the other are welcome :)
The problem I've meet - I was trying to find why autodetect doesn't recognize encoding. I did add it to the combo in filechooser but it didn't change anything. Only then I've discovered gconf key. Second thing - grep in po files - how many locales have the same list as default values for two keys Enough brainstorming for today :)
*** Bug 529318 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug #730622 contains more details. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730622 ***