Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: geany
When I try to open a file that seems to have characters in a different
encoding, geany silently refuses to open the file, only the status area
has a comment about it. Also if I force the encoding, it just cuts off
at the first non-matching character, without telling me what happened.
As a user, I would love to be informed about such a thing, currently I
just wonder why the document is not opened, only when I check the
status-area I see that it failed to open for some reason.
I see various options to improve this:
- provide a dialog to tell the user about a file that is not (completely) opened
- provide a way to display the invalid characters differently and still load
the document in full, not concatenating it mid-document
** Affects: geany (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/738672
Title:
Geany silently refuses to open file instead of giving me the choice
what to do
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