Re: [cssed-devel] Problems with encoding changes

[Iago R. <iag...@hi...>]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:14, Mich=C3=A8le Garoche wrote:
> Say I write down a file with no special encoding.

ok.

> I put Mich=C3=A8le in it: (e grave on the first e).
> Then I save the file.
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> Then I change the encoding to utf8, with Document->Encoding,=20

Nope, you forze the buffer to be treated as UTF-8, it does not change
the encoding, nor convert between encodings.

All text in the buffer will be in the file's encoding, and all new text
in the  selected encoding.

> it leads=20
> to the loss of all characters after Mich (on the display at least).
> That's annoying.

I know that :)

It handles the encodings well, but you - right now - can not convert
between different encodings in cssed. It'll recognize the encoding of
opened files and set as UTF-8 the new ones, but can not convert.

As example, try `file` on your file with "Mich=C3=A8lle", imagine you named
it "test".

It will say you something like:
$file test
test: ISO-8859 text, with no line terminators

Open it in cssed, add more text and save it.=20

Then try `file`again, it will be still ISO-8859.

Now convert it to UTF-8 with:
$iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 test > test.utf8
$file test.utf8
test.utf8: UTF-8 Unicode text, with no line terminators

Open test.utf8 in cssed, add more text and save it. It will recognice it
as UTF-8, the encoding will be set automatically and the text will be
saved as UTF-8 (try file again if you want to check if it's true).

So the encoding is treated trasparently, but can not convert between
encodings yet.

So ... what the hell is needed the anoying "Encoding" stuff ?

It's needed because cssed will treat all documents as UTF-8. If you need
to write a document to anyone that can not read UTF-8, you can forze the
encoding - before to write any text - and save in you preferred
encoding.

I think that will be better to rename it as "Forze encoding" or
something like that.

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