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I did some research over this issue and realized that everyone was suggesting to use iconv or recode to change the encoding of the file to UTF-8. The thing is that I do not want to change the encoding of the file. I just want to use gedit in order to edit the file (my file's encoding is iso-8859-7) and save it using the same original encoding. Is there a way to do that?

I know for a fact that Kate has a menu option that lets you determine the encoding of the file. Even the default text editor of Windows (!!!!!!!!!!), notepad, allows you to select the encoding. I mean, I like having an extensible default text editor and all, but there are some features that are not optional.

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  • The thing is that this plugin changes the encoding. I do not want to change the encoding :S
    – Lim Arctan
    Sep 26, 2011 at 11:07

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I found Character Encoding option on gedit Save As.. dialog and it seems you have to add your desired encoding. I think setting up Character Encoding to automatically detected will do what you desire after you add your encoding to the roster.

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Or you can use geany for text editing as well which is quite nice.

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Gnome developers often value simplicity over features, while KDE developers prefer more features even if it make the program unsuitable for 3-year-olds :)

There is an old ticket requesting this feature, if you have a read you'll see that Gedit has some sort of encoding auto-detection which, unfortunately, is not always perfect. Since 2009 there's a patch adding Encodings menu though it doesn't look it's going to be accepted. In fact, the 'patch' seems to be a plugin for gedit written in Python - you may see if it's possible to install it, though it may be outdated.

So, if you need this feature - kate is a perfectly good replacement for gedit and has many nice features apart from the ability to change document's encoding.

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