Bug 96149

Summary: wish: allow hotkeys and/or auto-detection for character-sets
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: H.H. <cyberbeat>
Component: kwriteAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description H.H. 2005-01-02 11:02:52 UTC 
Version:           4.3 (using KDE 3.3.2 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE )
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-99-athlon

On my hard-disk there are more and more utf-8 files, mixed with iso-8859-1 files...

Although you can choose a standard-character-set to open-with, it is hard, to choose the character-set manually for files with other character sets. It seems possible to "destroy" files with special chars, if you edit them with the wrong character-set and then then save them.

Perhaps it is possible to implement an optional character-set-auto-detection, and for people who do not like auto-detection, the possibility to set hotkeys for their favorite character-sets.
Comment 1 Anders Lund 2005-03-24 11:28:38 UTC 
autodetection is in the works, and you can set the encodig from the menu, command line or a document variable.
Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2005-03-24 12:43:10 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55355 ***