Bluefish does not apply new preferences until exit

[Janos Vegh]

Binary package hint: bluefish

I am using kubuntu and wanted to use bluefish (1.0.7) to edit a Hungarian text.
The text was formerly edited under ubuntu/bluefish.
Bluefish comes up with the default encoding UTF-8 and replaces my character
(TeX \H u) with some other, similarly looking char.
( I think it should give at least a warning, that the text contains foreign characters
rather that simply replacing them. This behavior can destroy the whole document.)
I edited the text and wanted to save the corrected one.
Now bluefish (correctly) refused the action, saying that the encoding is wrong.
OK, I changed the encoding under Edit/Preferences to 8859-2.
The change did not appear in the bottom line and I could neither save my document.
I exited Bluefish, restarted it. Now it came up with the correct encoding
and the character appears on the screen as expected.

To summarize, I have two problems:
1./ it should not change the character if it does not in the actual encoding
2./ upon pressing 'Apply', the new settings should be applied and used

I attach a simple test file with two Hungarian umlauts

[Janos Vegh (vegh-janos)]

This simple text file contains Hungarian umlaut chars showing the problem

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

Edit > Preferences sets the default encoding for files, which are opened and which encoding cannot be determined. It does not set the Encoding for the current document. This is done via the Document > Character Encoding. However, this also seems to be refused.

I forwarded this to upstream BTS.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's fixed upstream already.