Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

> If Gedit assumes that a file is utf8 when LC_CTYPE is not set to
> something.UTF-8 (like LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8) looks like seriously
> broken behaviour to me.

Well, but it's a fact that not every file corresponds to your local
LC_CTYPE settings. For example, my newer text files (since I switched to
Kubuntu) are encoded in UTF-8, and the ones from my Gentoo age and before
still are ISO-8895-1. Also, everything that involves other people can't
be fixed to the one correct encoding. KDE svn might use UTF-8 files while
group projects at university courses often involve ISO-8895-1 ones.
Also, web pages are quite differently encoded, even if XHTML pages
specify their own encoding.

Opening text files based on an environment variable is broken by design.
Only new files should be created with regard to LC_CTYPE, whereas
existing ones should be checked on their encoding.