Thank you for your bug report, upstream rejected doing a such change on the rational that the encoding information is already available when you mouseover the document tab, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389946
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #389946 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389946 ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix ** Also affects: gedit via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389946 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479910 Title: display current file encoding in editor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1479910/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs