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How can I force gedit 44.2 to open file in the UTF-8 encoding?
I'm on Ubuntu 23.10 using gedit 44.2. I opened a file named METADATA, and it displayed like this:
However, if I open it with another file editor, I see these contents:
Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: ...
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Can gedit create a Unicode file?
Using bless I can see my gedit output is ASCII. Can gedit process some kind of Unicode?
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Convert a (txt|srt) document from Western(ISO-8859-15) to UTF-8
I am having problems with subtitles in my language. They are encoded as Western(ISO-8859-15) and therefore some characters are not displayed correctly. I am tired of replacing manually using gedit ...
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gedit can't recognize character encoding, but gvim can
I have a lot of plain text files which come from a Windows environment.
Many of them use a whacky default Windows code-page, which is neither ASCII (7 bits) nor UTF-8.
gvim has no problem opening ...
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