Re: Character encodings for files

Use File/Reload with Encoding to use a different encoding for an individual
file.

Note that there are a large number of encodings which can be a pain since
utf8 is near the end :-(. Go to Utilities/Global Options/Encodings and drag
to Selected encoding(s) the ones you need.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:03 AM Edward Diener <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I do not see anything the JEdit settings that lets me control the
> character encoding which certain types of files, or certain types of
> files in certain directories, should be opened with. Does this exist in
> JEdit ? I only noticed a global option for the default encoding. Have a
> I missed something, or does JEdit, or perhaps a JEdit plugin, let me
> control the character encoding with which certain files are opened.
>
> While the default encoding under Windows, Cp1252, works well for the
> vast majority of files there are a number of files which should be
> opened with the UTF8 encoding instead. In particular nearly all git
> files in git repositories are UTF8.
>
> I did notice that once I changed the character encoding for a particular
> file that JEdit retains this even between sessions, so evidently JEdit
> can associate a character encoding with a particular file whenever I
> edit the file. But what I am looking for is the ability to say that all
> the files of a particular file glob within a particular
> directory/subdirectories should be opened with some encoding which is
> not the default encoding.
>
>
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