On 5 April 2013 13:43, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 06:12 +1000, Kai Willadsen wrote:
>> On 5 April 2013 00:06, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Meld is currently working for me exactly as I want it, so such an option
>> > isn't needed by me.  But if it were pursued, I ask that the current
>> > capability be preserved.
>>
>> By 'current capability' I assume you mean the ability to have a list
>> of encodings to try?
>
> Not necessarily.  I mean the feature of being able to display files w/
> different encodings w/out me having to manually select/specify them for
> each file.  Whether that be the current form where multiple encodings
> are specified, or an auto-detect method, or something else works for me.
> Auto-detect seems like it will produce false positives and/or false
> negatives in some situations, so having some way to force it to behave
> as expected seems like a good idea.

Right. With auto-detect, there would have to be an override. Whether
that's a drop-down in the open-file dialog or in the 'whoops, we
couldn't open this file' infobox, or something else... I don't know.

cheers,
Kai
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