Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gedit
gedit: 2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu: 10.04 LTS When I open a .doc document, I expect gedit to open it like Vim, Emacs and even Nano: Just read out the bare text to produce a jumbled heap of �...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@« and other symbols – but the main content still somehow human-readable if found. Instead it gives me: »Could not open the file /PATH/example.doc. gedit has not been able to detect the character encoding. Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. Select a character encoding from the menu and try again.« (I forgot which ones the »several other formats« are specifically but I know this has happened to me countless times.) ** Affects: gedit Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- gedit can not open .doc files and several other formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575500 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs