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

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

If I understand correctly Joachim's proposal this *SecondaryEncoding* would be empty by default which would correspond to the current behavior (which is what Andreas prefers) but Joachim himself would set it to MacRoman, and James would set it to ISO-8859-1 (aka Latin1). So everybody would be happy. 
But if thereafter Joachim tries to open a Latin1 file, this file will be silently opened in MacRoman giving wrong characters for all the accented letters: he would have to use the Open File command and explicitely set the encoding to Latin1 in the dialog.


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** [tickets:#240] Encoding**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Sat Oct 24, 2020 07:43 AM UTC by James Connolly
**Last Updated:** Fri Nov 20, 2020 02:51 PM 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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