Downstream bug may be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/638560

Binary package hint: gedit

1)  lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
Release:	10.10

2) apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installed: 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.3-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy kwrite
kwrite:
  Installed: 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What I expected to happen is when I typed the following at the Terminal:

sudo lshw > info.txt

then try to open the file (please see attached info.txt) with gedit it automatically detects the encoding and opens it.

4) What happened instead is that I get a GUI prompt (please see attached screenshot.png) where no matter how many times I click the Retry button, it does not open. However, if I click the drop down box and choose Western (ISO-8859-15) then click the Retry button, it opens. However, kwrite opens the same file no problem without any GUI prompt about encoding.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gedit 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-21.31-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 14 20:57:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit