Comment 10 for bug 67844

Actually, for me it only detects UTF-8 and Latin-15. I even tried to open a KOI8-U text file on gedit, and it was rendered as Latin-15. Perhaps it depends on the locale?

While a fix is released, here's a workaround:
1- Open the text file with Firefox.
2- Select the correct character encoding.
3- Copy the text and re-save the file as UTF-8.

Anyway, I do think this should be a normal bug with normal priority - one should not have to resort to a full-fledged web browser (one which is a resource hog, even) to read a simple text file.