Re: Emacs file coding problem

jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Gabor Farkas <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>
> >afaik gedit's encoding defaults to the system's locale (should be utf8
> >on FedoraC3).
>
> Bad, bad. It should default to the user's locale; not the system's.
> Perhaps that what you meant.
yes, sorry ;)

>
> Also bad is the total absence of mention of locale in gedit's man page,
> and no mention of coding apart from saying there is an "--encoding"
> command-line option, but not saying what charsets are supported.
>
hmmm.... you can try them in the gui, and write them down ;)

now i think i understand. you don't like the lack of the
...hmm..command-line integration?

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