Public bug reported: Steps to reproduce: * Use a fresh en-US install of Ubuntu 14.04 * Open a file that's not valid UTF-8 in gedit
Actual results: gedit offers to open the file using a non-UTF-8 encoding. By default, the menu has one non-UTF-8 item: ISO-8859-15. Expected results: Expected the single pre-populated item in the menu to be windows-1252 instead of ISO-8859-15. Additional info: ISO-8859-15 post-dates UTF-8 and is not actually as common a legacy encoding as ISO-8859-1 and windows-1252. windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, so there's no point in having ISO-8859-1 in the menu. However, if one is opening legacy files, having windows-1252 in the menu is useful. Putting ISO-8859-15 in the menu instead looks like anti-Microsoft political posturing that's detached from practicality. ** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308395 Title: gedit's en-US encoding menu has ISO-8859-15 by default, should have windows-1252 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1308395/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs