Leafpad cant create new '.txt' documents on locale 'es' sends error:"Can't convert codeset to 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' "

[Danny]

Leafpad cant create new '.txt' documents on locale 'es' (if the document has characters with accents) it prints error:"Can't convert codeset to 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' ".

I am using a fresh Fluxbuntu install, i havent uninstalled anything yet. As a workaround i edit already created documents. For example:

$echo " ">new_document.txt
$leafpad new_document.txt

In this case leafpad can save the document even if it has characters with accent.

Same for mousepad.

[Danny (ardanbis)]

Of course it is fluxbuntu 7.10.

[Danny (ardanbis)]

Installing openoffice.org fixes the locale problem.

aptitude install openoffice.org

[gcb (gcb0)]

i have the same problem. but saving the same text (from clipboard) as iso-8955-1 in gvim works without any problem. in fact, saving as utf-8 produce wrong encodings...

there's nothing in the text that "can't be converted to iso-8859-1" in my case (éáí)

my guess is that several of the "can't convert" errors on leafpad are actual bugs.

[UniMaX (unimaxxx)]

Same error in Xubuntu 12.04 with Leafpad 0.8.18.1.

[Bill777 (billachenal)]

Here we are in 2016
Hallo, 2008.

Just happened to me, again. Leafpad 0.8.18.1

The culprit at this time is an apostrophe of the wrong kind ’ (rather than ' )
 almost invisible in " it’s "
... though it could be any stray character.

My xkbmap language was set to gb, and it shouldn't be a problem

Workaround by changing all apostrophes to apostrophe; save then works.

Don't you just love the way...