I faced the same problems as described at start of this bug. So far I have changed command entry in the gnome menu for Text Editor to "gedit --encoding=windows-1250 %U". Since then I can survive until the bug is fixed.
-- Gedit encoding autodetection fails on all cp1250 files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289939 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs