[Bug 18191] Notepad should detect text type and prompt to change saved file encoding automatically

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18191





--- Comment #24 from Alexander Scott-Johns <alexander.scott.johns+winebug at googlemail.com>  2009-07-06 19:00:33 ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> Created an attachment (id=22231)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=22231) [details]
> screenshot
> 
> Almost there. test-utf8-nobom.txt still has a problem. See screenshot.
> 
> Thanks for all your work!

This screenshot shows that Wine Notepad has opened the <utf8 -bom> file in
Latin1, and WinXP has opened it in UTF-8. This is expected behaviour for Wine
Notepad if there is no byte-order mark (0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf). I think WinXP
Notepad should do the same as Wine, unless it has a heuristic for detecting
UTF-8. When opening the <utf8 -bom> file, what encoding does WinXP Notepad
select in the Open dialog? Did you override it?

Maybe the byte-order mark was added back? If the file was saved within Notepad
(either WinXP or Wine), then this would happen automatically. Try forcing
Latin1 in WinXP and see whether the file starts with the characters  (i with
two dots, right guillemet, inverted ?).

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