ability to choose encoding

[Locked]

Just came across german umlauts in a textfile and wanted to check which encoding is used in gobby.

I noticed that it does not seem possible to choose different encodings in the preferences. Well I can live with it, but it might be a nice feature in future releases to be able to select different encodings.

[armin]

When a file is opened, Gobby always tries to auto-detect its encoding. Internally, Gobby always uses UTF-8. When storing a file back to disk, it uses the encoding of the file when it was opened, or UTF-8 if the file was not opened locally.

I think the correct place to put this option in is the file chooser dialog when opening or saving a file.

[Locked]

Thanks for the comment Armin.

Maybe a little info (in the statisbar or somewhere) which encoding is detected/used would be enough as a first step (if choosing the encoding is too much work for the first step). At least one could see if the auto-detection of the encoding is right.