Comment 7 for bug 57985

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 57985] Re: be smart at guessing encoding

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:05 +0000, bialix wrote:
> Well, I understand your pain in wide sense of guessing encoding. But
> it's too big problem. Make problem smaller.
>
> If I work on branch and I precisely know what encoding files are -- how
> I can tell to bzr-gtk this info? I think support for giving this info
> could be first small but important step towards encodings support.
>
> Right now bzr-gtk simply unusable with my russian-text files.
That's why I think the best way to solve this is as ddaa proposed:

- try to guess an encoding (maybe always UTF-8?)
- allow the user (in the diff window) to change the encoding from the
default

Cheers,

Jelmer
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