Bug 343506

Summary: Illegal characters in given encoding should be shown
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Pascal Niklaus <pascal+kde>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: christoph
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.14.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pascal Niklaus 2015-01-29 10:35:28 UTC 
Using kate, I struggled with files with "unknown" or "broken" encoding many times. 

What I think is needed is a way to enforce a certain encoding (which there is), *and* have kate show the characters that are "wrong" (at least say in which line they are). Optionally, it would be great to have the choice to simply replace them by a given character, or just drop them. 

I just had a file that had a NUL character in it. "iconv" did not remove it, and kate pestered about illegal characters but did not say where they were. 


Reproducible: Always




I classified this as "wishlist".
Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-06 15:19:14 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 366727 ***