From: Matthieu C. <cho...@gm...> - 2008-04-06 10:50:05
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On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ian Lewis <ian...@gm...> wrote: > 2008/4/6, Matthieu Casanova <cho...@gm...>: > > > That's right, but who will do that ? > > Imagine a user that wants to search for a text in a folder that > > contains a lot of files and subfolders, if some files cannot be opened > > by jEdit because of encoding, will he want to add some encodings in > > the fallback encoding list ? Probably not, he will think that jEdit > > sucks. > > In that case it should be automatic > > Unfortunately just being able to open the file isn't enough. Say you are > searching for a particular Japanese word recursively in a directory. If the > file is opened in the incorrect encoding you aren't going to find the word. > Ian Right but in most case a wrong encoding will lead to several characters that aren't loaded correctly, usually the accents, and in that case it is better than nothing to do the search with that |