gedit's en-US encoding menu has ISO-8859-15 by default, should have windows-1252
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gedit (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
* Use a fresh en-US install of Ubuntu 14.04
* Open a file that's not valid UTF-8 in gedit
Actual results:
gedit offers to open the file using a non-UTF-8 encoding. By default, the menu has one non-UTF-8 item: ISO-8859-15.
Expected results:
Expected the single pre-populated item in the menu to be windows-1252 instead of ISO-8859-15.
Additional info:
ISO-8859-15 post-dates UTF-8 and is not actually as common a legacy encoding as ISO-8859-1 and windows-1252. windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, so there's no point in having ISO-8859-1 in the menu. However, if one is opening legacy files, having windows-1252 in the menu is useful. Putting ISO-8859-15 in the menu instead looks like anti-Microsoft political posturing that's detached from practicality.
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