Comment 27 for bug 819714

Well, I'd say an ideal solution would be for gedit to detect the encoding by itself, and thus avoid all these tricky configurations. I've experimented a bit with universalchardet, which comes with Mozilla project, and its separate library libuchardet. I found it to be smart enough in most cases. Attached is a preliminary patch I did to support gedit with uchardet, for preliminary early preview.

I'll come up with a testing package a bit later.