Configure Meld Encoding to CP-1252

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Vitor Vezani picture Vitor Vezani · Aug 12, 2016 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

Is it possible to configure Meld to open diff/merge files with encoding CP-1252 in Ubuntu 16.04?

Answer

Daniel picture Daniel · Aug 19, 2016

You should configure it by setting the gsettings key 'detect-encodings' for the wanted encodings.

gsettings set org.gnome.meld detect-encodings "['UTF-8', 'WINDOWS-1252', 'ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-16']"

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