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waterloo2005
Asked: 2012-01-25 00:39:45 +0800 CST

How to set encoding in gedit 3.2?

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I can not display file coded with GBK. In gconf-editor of gnome 3.2 , I can not find encoding item of gedit . How to set it ? thanks

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  1. Best Answer

    I don't have a file encoded in GBK to test the solutions, but do try them.

    Option 1: Run gedit and then open the file:

    • run gedit

    • click open

    • select in the encoding combo "add" and add GB18030 (or GBK)

    • select that encoding in the combo

    • select the file

    Option 2:

    • install and run gconf-editor

    • Find /apps/gedit-2/preferences/encoding key "auto_detected" and set it to:

      [CURRENT,GB18030,GBK,GB2312,UTF-8,UTF-16]

    Remember to backup the previous value of auto_detected!!

    Option 3: Using dconf (the "newer" gconf, used in ubuntu)

    dconf read /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected

    Save the result (backup)!

    dconf write /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected "['CURRENT', 'GBK', 'GB18030', 'GB2312', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16']"

    Sources:

    To reset it to default: a) use the option you backed up from dconf read command

    or b) try:

    dconf reset /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected
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  2. If you want do it quick then install medit. All works from the box.

    If you still want use gedit then you need do some work:

    1. Set auto-detect

      gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.encodings auto-detected "['UTF-8', 'GBK', 'CURRENT', 'ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-16']"

    2. Install plugin for manual choose encoding. Really useful, especially when auto-detect don't detect encoding properly

    "Change encoding" plugin for gedit v3

    # Download plugin
mkdir -p /tmp/encoding
cd /tmp/encoding
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ge/gedit-encoding-plugin/gedit-encoding-plugin.tar.gz
tar -xzvf gedit-encoding-plugin.tar.gz

# Copy to plugins directory
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
cp /tmp/encoding/gedit-encoding-plugin/encoding.plugin /tmp/encoding/gedit-encoding-plugin/encodingpy.py ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins

# Remove /tmp/encoding
rm -Rf /tmp/encoding

    Then run gedit. Choose Edit->Preferences->Plugins(tab)->Check "Encoding" checkbox. After you do that you can find "Encoding" in menu "File"

    Plugin description: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-encoding-plugin/

    Plugin for gedit v2. Same author as in plugin above: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=108326 (this is .tgz ext, but be careful it is a tar only archive) or plugin for gedit v2 by another author: http://petrstepanov.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/gedit-encoding-plugin/

    !!! plugin for gedit v2 has got tar.gz ext, but it is only a tar archive that is not gzipped...

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  3. Ubuntu 18.10 gconf-editor is removed. Use 'dconf-editor' as an instead.Or use command line tool 'dconf'. And 'auto-detected' is replaced by 'candidate-encodings' :

    dconf write /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/candidate-encodings "['CURRENT', 'GBK', 'GB18030', 'GB2312', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16']"
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