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List:       jedit-users
Subject:    Re: [ jEdit-users ] charset switch
From:       Andy Streich <andy () rushyglen ! com>
Date:       2005-12-12 0:30:57
Message-ID: 200512111630.57400.andy () rushyglen ! com
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On Sunday 11 December 2005 12:17 pm, Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> > Since UTF-8 can not generally be auto-detected (stated in the User's
> > Guide), if I
> >
> > 1. have all my options set to iso-8859-1 and
> > 2. load a file that was saved as UTF-8
> >
> > How is it that jEdit can detect that it is still a UTF-8 file (which it
> > does)?
>
> jEdit saves the last encoding that was used to open a file. (I think
> it's limited to the files in the "recent opened" list, but I might be
> mistaked.)
>
> So if you save the file as UTF-8 in jEdit, open it in another editor,
> save it as ISO-8859-1, then open in jEdit, jEdit will open it as UTF-8
> because that's what it remembers.

Thanks, Marcelo.  That would explain much of my confusion.

Andy


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