How can I force gedit 44.2 to open file in the UTF-8 encoding?

Asked Nov 23 '23 at 09:30

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I'm on Ubuntu 23.10 using gedit 44.2. I opened a file named METADATA, and it displayed like this:

However, if I open it with another file editor, I see these contents:

Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pyright
Version: 1.1.337
Summary: Command line wrapper for pyright
...

It seems that gedit did not correctly recognise the file encoding to be UTF-8, and opened it using another encoding. How can I ask gedit to open the file using UTF-8?

asked Nov 23 '23 at 09:30

Flimm

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Maybe try some of these changes the gedit preferences https://askubuntu.com/questions/375049/where-are-gedits-preferences than? – darth_epoxy Nov 23 '23 at 09:47
@darth_epoxy There isn't a preference to do with encoding, as far as I can see. That question is 10 years old, by the way, and gedit has changed a lot since then. – Flimm Nov 23 '23 at 14:25
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Have you been able to confirm what the encoding actually is (e.g. using the file command)? – steeldriver Nov 23 '23 at 21:57
Sorry for the old link @Flimm but that's how long ago anyone used gedit :) Have you tried using nano for file editing? – darth_epoxy Nov 24 '23 at 07:33
gedit --encoding=UTF-8 '/a/file' – cmak.fr Nov 24 '23 at 08:33
@steeldriver Yes, I have. – Flimm Nov 24 '23 at 13:03
@cmak.fr Thank you! I would accept that as an answer. – Flimm Nov 24 '23 at 13:03

How can I force gedit 44.2 to open file in the UTF-8 encoding?

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