On 1 March 2014 07:04, Claudio Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kai,
>
> why did you remove the encoding settings?
> In version 1.8 I found them very usefull when working with various systems
> (windows xp).
> I was able to set it to "utf8 latin1" and everything was fine.
>
> Setting this in gsettings for version 3 is not very comfortable :-(

Please remember this is the first version of 3.11, so not everything
is completely polished. I'm *hoping* to have a different solution for
encoding selection in the future, which will probably look something
like gedit's character encoding selection box in the filechooser.

> An other approach would be to set the default encoding settings in
> gsettiings
>  to something like "utf8 latin1" to fit most of the users out of the box.

We can't really do this; decoding as latin1 if you don't know for sure
that that's what you've got is pretty much just asking to be shown
random bytes.

cheers,
Kai
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