NEdit doesn't work support UTF

[Max Jonas Werner]

The default character encoding in Ubuntu is UTF-8. But NEdit doesn't support UTF at all. The only workaround for now is the following:

1. Do a 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales' and choose an ISO-8859-* encoding (I don't know if other encodings such as CP1251 work).

2. Call NEdit by using the command 'LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 nedit' (replace language and encoding with your preferred ones (but not UTF ;-))

As long as NEdit doesn't support UTF encodings Ubuntu should do this workaround by itself and perhaps tell the user that he cannot use UTF fonts at all.

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

Confirmed. I have my locale set to en_US.UTF-8, using nedit 5.5-1ubuntu1.

The unicode test file at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt displays in a mangled fashion; it looks like ISO 8859.

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

This is still present in nedit 1:5.5-2ubuntu3, in Gutsy. It does, however, now throw a warning when you try to open a UTF-8 file.

$ nedit UTF-8-demo.txt
UTF8 locale not supported.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

See also http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1543796&group_id=11005&atid=111005

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this occur in Lucid?

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Yes, this bug is not solved.

However, previously I was under the impression that nedit threw a warning at me. It doesn't do that (anymore).

I will try to have a look at why the warning doesn't work.

[Scott Tringali (tringali)]

There is no UTF8 support in the sense you can edit or view unicode, it's still a single-byte editor. The warning you see was to prevent a crash in certain versions of OpenMotif (I believe it was the file selector box), so what it does is ignore the utf8 part and try to run in the non-utf8 locale "de_DE".

[dino99 (9d9)]

 It's in Debian, and the descriptive text includes
> "Because of its mature age, NEdit does not support UTF-8 text files,
> nor will that be implemented."

Think using vim or else.