I have an attached file that is encoded in ISO-8859-1, as confirmed by the Linux file command. However, when I open it with xnedit, xnedit always reports:
“4 non-convertible characters skipped …”
If I manually select ISO8859-1 and click the Reload button, the file loads correctly.
I also tried changing the following settings in nedit.rc:
Quickie question: I maintain an ebuild for xnedit in my unofficial
Gentoo overlay. Is there an -announce list I can join to get timely
notification of new upstream releases? I didn't realize until today
that I was a minor version behind. (It's up-to-date now.)
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Phil Stracchino
Fenian House Publishing
phils@caerllewys.net
phil@co.ordinate.org
Landline: +1.603.293.8485
Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
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I have an attached file that is encoded in ISO-8859-1, as confirmed by the Linux file command. However, when I open it with xnedit, xnedit always reports:
“4 non-convertible characters skipped …”
If I manually select ISO8859-1 and click the Reload button, the file loads correctly.
I also tried changing the following settings in nedit.rc:
nedit.editorConfig: False
nedit.defaultCharset: ISO8859-1
nedit.fallbackCharset: ISO8859-1
but they did not help—xnedit still reports the same error every time.
Is this the expected behavior of xnedit, or does this indicate a bug?
It is a bug. The newest commit should fix this issue.
Thank you. Everything is working as expected now.
On 12/14/25 13:32, SweetTyler wrote:
Quickie question: I maintain an ebuild for xnedit in my unofficial
Gentoo overlay. Is there an -announce list I can join to get timely
notification of new upstream releases? I didn't realize until today
that I was a minor version behind. (It's up-to-date now.)
--
Phil Stracchino
Fenian House Publishing
phils@caerllewys.net
phil@co.ordinate.org
Landline: +1.603.293.8485
Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
No, there is no mailing list. Would a rss/atom feed just for releases help? That would be something I could create.
On 12/14/25 14:46, Pyrphoros wrote:
That would be helpful, yes. I just installed an RSS reader extension in
my browser.
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Phil Stracchino
Fenian House Publishing
phils@caerllewys.net
phil@co.ordinate.org
Landline: +1.603.293.8485
Mobile: +1.603.998.6958