#839 Display the inputenc names of the encoding names in the UI's bottom encoding drop down list

[Denis Bitouzé]

In the encoding drop down list at the UI's bottom, the names displayed:

• Apple Roman
• UTF-8
• ISO-8859-1
• windows-1252

are not clearly related to their inputenc (LaTeX package) counterparts:

• applemac
• utf8
• latin1
• cp1252

I suggest for the latter ones to be displayed as well (for instances in parentheses after the former ones).

[Tim Hoffmann]

There's hardly a reason not to use UTF-8 nowadays. I assume that people know about encoding if they really have to use something else. For UTF-8 the similarity is sufficient. If people need to look up the relation, they can do so in the encoding dialog.

So I do not really see a target user group that would significantly benefit from this.

Something more useful would be a cross check between the inputenc and the file encoding. A warning could appear at the inputenc command and in the status bar.

[Denis Bitouzé]

A target user group is beginners/intermediate users (e.g. PhD students! ;) who were told to use UTF-8 and who suddenly receive an old Apple Roman or ISO-8859-1 encoded file from their (old) advisor, file they possibly have to mix with their own files.

What you suggest would indeed be useful but wouldn't help to find the matches in case of discordance.