[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #240 Encoding

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

Hi James,
thank you for the suggestion. The problem with the *file* command is that it is not sufficiently accurate and reliable. For instance, I tested it (with option `-I` to get a mime type) on a file encoded in macRoman and got:
`text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit`
I tested it on a file containing greek text written ISO-8859-7 and got :
`text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1` (sic, 8859-1, not 8859-7).
Same wrong result with a russian text in ISO8859-5.
I'm afraid this would lead to wrong decisions that would be quite frustrating for the user.



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** [tickets:#240] Encoding**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Sat Oct 24, 2020 07:43 AM UTC by James Connolly
**Last Updated:** Sat Oct 24, 2020 07:46 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Hello, first thanks for all the great work from a long term user (≈1997 on) !

A suggestion :Would it be possible to have a "Default encoding : Check file on open"?

This "check file on open" would, upon opening a file, have Alpha check the file's (e.g. BSD "file" command) and use that. And only then open the "Encodings popup" if this fails.

At present I have many files in ISO-8859 and the pop-up is working rather hard. And I'm not inclined to convert them all to UTF-8 in order to avoid further potential problems : if Alpha can handle ISO-8859, why not silently continue to do so where appropriate is my thinking.

Cheers, James

p.s. not files as "bug" nor "task" but as "RFE" which I hope means "suggestion".



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