Re: [ jEdit-users ] Character encodings for files

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

On 11/18/2019 10:50 AM, Dale Anson wrote:
> Unfortunately, there isn't a built-in way to do that, and I'm not aware 
> of a plugin that provides that feature. The jEdit API doesn't really 
> provide a way to set encoding by file type, rather it uses bytes from an 
> input stream and doesn't give access to the file itself, so without an 
> API change, a plugin couldn't do what you're asking.
> 
> I'm assuming you have the auto detect encoding turned on?

Yes, auto detect is turned on. Maybe I should just change the default 
encoding from Cp1252 to UTF8 on Windows.

Ideally it would be nice if I could tell JEdit to automatically use 
encodings based on glob patterns, and use the default encoding whenever 
a glob pattern is not matched. I am assuming in that ideal case that a 
glob pattern might extend to a full file spec so specific directories 
could be part of the pattern.

> 
> Dale
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 7:30 AM Edward Diener <eld...@tr... 
> <mailto:eld...@tr...>> wrote:
> 
>     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...>
>      > <mailto: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.