#232 Code improvement: Handling of file encoding

[Christian K.]

I just took a deeper look into the pydev source code. I came across the way the PyEdit class handles the file encoding and that it tries to read it from the Python itself.
I thought that this is similar to how this is handled for XML files because the encoding is also specified in the file itself.
I found out that there is a standard "Eclipse way" of dealing with this and it is based on content describers (IContentDescriber). Maybe this might be a good improvement for PyEdit/pydev.

More info can be found here:
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/documents/content_types.html

[Fabio Zadrozny]

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