Gedit misrecognises encoding on plain ASCII file

[David Venhoek]

On opening the attached file, gedit recognises it incorrectly as some asian-specific encoding, even though the file is plain ASCII.

Ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04

Gedit package version:
gedit:
  Installed: 3.18.3-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 3.18.3-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 3.18.3-0ubuntu4 500
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I can't seem to reproduce the problem on 16.04 here.

Can you provide a screenshot of what you see?

[David Venhoek (t-dav0d-a)]

Attached an image showing the issue in action.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Wes (wesinator)]

Looks fine for me in gedit 3.28.1 on Ubuntu 18.04

Are you sure the file wasn't overwritten with binary data by another program ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

If you open it through the open menu item, what encoding is selected in the bottom left corner?