Geany silently refuses to open file instead of giving me the choice what to do
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Geany |
Unknown
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Unknown
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| geany (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: geany
When I try to open a file that seems to have characters in a different encoding, geany silently refuses to open the file, only the status area has a comment about it. Also if I force the encoding, it just cuts off at the first non-matching character, without telling me what happened.
As a user, I would love to be informed about such a thing, currently I just wonder why the document is not opened, only when I check the status-area I see that it failed to open for some reason.
I see various options to improve this:
- provide a dialog to tell the user about a file that is not (completely) opened
- provide a way to display the invalid characters differently and still load the document in full, not concatenating it mid-document
| Changed in geany (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote | #1 |
| Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler) wrote | #2 |
| Roger James (rogerjames99) wrote | #3 |
Dominik, can you attach the file in question either here or on the upstream tracker at http://