Bug 375575 - No UTF-8 Option In Char Encoding Selections
Summary: No UTF-8 Option In Char Encoding Selections
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170925
Alias: None
Product: okteta
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
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Reported: 2017-01-26 09:01 UTC by alan
Modified: 2017-01-26 18:22 UTC (History)
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Description alan 2017-01-26 09:01:59 UTC 
The list of char encodings do not include UTF-8.
Comment 1 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau 2017-01-26 15:03:14 UTC 
Thanks for the request. Currently only plain 8-bit char encodings are supported in the bytearray view/editor, so UTF-8 is not an option (same with other UTF variants). There is some support in the tools Decoding table and Structures though.

Furthermore, with char encodings with varying byte-width, like UTF-8, we still need some good ideas how to support editing in the char edit mode. Proposals welcome.

Thus tagging as wish/feature request.
Comment 2 alan 2017-01-26 15:16:31 UTC 
Thanks for the feedback and I can see how it is considerably more tricky than the fixed 8-bit encodings. However it would be very useful.

It might be hard, but in the editor you currently highlight the characters and the corresponding single bytes so perhaps you could just extend this approach so that however many corresponding bytes are highlighted.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2017-01-26 18:22:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170925 ***