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Bug 91491 - Please add an iconv GUI plugin to convert text between different codepages (including UTF-8)
Please add an iconv GUI plugin to convert text between different codepages (i...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85992
Product: gedit-plugins
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.0.0
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
gedit QA volunteers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-23 06:50 UTC by sdiconov
Modified: 2019-03-23 20:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description sdiconov 2002-08-23 06:50:27 UTC 
I've been using a cyrillic-converter plugin which supported the 4 most
popular codepages (introduced by IBM, MS...) while in gnome1. Transition to
gnome2 is likely to break compatibility. The plugin is not maintained now,
so there must be some replacement. 

A lot of people whose knowledge of alphabets is not limited to latin :)
will appreciate this. Being able to make the plain text readable in all
cases, regardless of its writer's OS and UTF8 support is important.

There is a standard API and shell command for doing it called iconv. Adding
GUI (with user definable presets for symplifying the choice) must be pretty
straighforward.
Comment 1 sdiconov 2002-08-30 20:34:36 UTC 
I would add that this feature is of crucial importance. What do I need
a text editor incapable of even displaying readable text for?
Comment 2 Andrew Sobala 2002-08-30 21:03:59 UTC 
Please see bug 85992 for details about this enhancement. Basically,
the maintainer cannot implement this in the near future but patches
are welcome.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85992 ***