Geany

Since there is no suitable solution to check encoding of a text-file 100%
correct, I will close this bug report. Reopen it if needed.

> I think it will be usefull Geany to autodetect encoding when it opens
file.
Geany does this too. But sometimes the encoding can't be detected
correctly(like in the case of the reporter). See my second reponse in this
topic for details.

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Hi there!

I think it will be usefull Geany to autodetect encoding when it opens
file.
Many programms can do it.

> How about changing encoding when file is already open?

Try File->Reload As. Or set the encoding in the Open dialog.
The Document menu encoding item is for setting the encoding to *save* the
document in.

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How about changing encoding when file is already open? For example, i want
to open some HMTL file. It will be opened in KOI8-R character encoding. But
i need to use windows-1251. So I try try Document -> Set Encoding -> East
European -> Cyrillic 1251 (or smthg like this it is in Russian :)) and...
nothing happens! Why Geany cant convert my file?

PS Sorry for my English mates :)

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This isn't really a bug, rather a wrong behaviour. The thing
is, Geany probes all known encodings with the loading file
and the first encoding which doesn't produce errors at
converting will be used. This isn't very smart and not very
efficient but ir works at the moment. Gedit and Anjuta do it
mainly in the same way. The problem is, there is not really
a good way to detect an encoding, so trying is the best one
at the moment.
Try to add a koi8-r specific character in one of your files
and Geany should open it the next time with this encoding(I
know, this isn't a solution).

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Can you test Anjuta and/or GEdit? Is there the same problem
or is it working with these programs?