Re: [ jEdit-users ] Character encodings for files

[Edward D. <eld...@tr...>]

On 11/18/2019 5:31 AM, Moti Ben-Ari wrote:
> Use File/Reload with Encoding to use a different encoding for an 
> individual file.
> 
> Note that there are a large number of encodings which can be a pain 
> since utf8 is near the end :-(. Go to Utilities/Global Options/Encodings 
> and drag to Selected encoding(s) the ones you need.

I am fully aware that I can open an individual file with a particular 
encoding using File/Reload with Encoding. But if you read my OP below 
that is not what I asked about. I want to have the ability to 
automatically open certain file types as defined by file globs and a 
file location with an encoding that is not the single default encoding 
defined by Global Options | Encodings | Default Character Encoding. In 
other words I find the single default character encoding, applied to all 
files for which I have not changed to a different encoding, to be a very 
limited way of specifying what encoding I want for files.

> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:03 AM Edward Diener <eld...@tr... 
> <mailto:eld...@tr...>> wrote:
> 
>     I do not see anything the JEdit settings that lets me control the
>     character encoding which certain types of files, or certain types of
>     files in certain directories, should be opened with. Does this exist in
>     JEdit ? I only noticed a global option for the default encoding. Have a
>     I missed something, or does JEdit, or perhaps a JEdit plugin, let me
>     control the character encoding with which certain files are opened.
> 
>     While the default encoding under Windows, Cp1252, works well for the
>     vast majority of files there are a number of files which should be
>     opened with the UTF8 encoding instead. In particular nearly all git
>     files in git repositories are UTF8.
> 
>     I did notice that once I changed the character encoding for a
>     particular
>     file that JEdit retains this even between sessions, so evidently JEdit
>     can associate a character encoding with a particular file whenever I
>     edit the file. But what I am looking for is the ability to say that all
>     the files of a particular file glob within a particular
>     directory/subdirectories should be opened with some encoding which is
>     not the default encoding.