No encoding settings at Windows Meld 3.20.2
OS information
- OS : Windows 10 pro 1909
- System Language : Korean
Main Problem
- Windows users cannont access Meld's detect encoding options at
Meld/Preferences
- It makes Meld only detect
UTF-8
encoding, so Meld can't detect file's encoding with other encoding likeEUC-KR
,Shift-JIS
- At file with other encoding, Meld detect file's encoding
CP-1252
, first encoding at alphabetically arranged encoding name list.
Possible Solution
- Make new section about encoding at
Meld_Preferences
- Meld already has function about possible detect encoding list.
- You can make registry to activate it.
Possible Registry Info
- Name :
detect-encodings
- Type :
REG-SZ
- Data Format :
list
object containing encoding name consistedstr
object
example :['UTF-8','EUC-KR','UTF-16']
Releated Issues
Reported at Issue Tracker
Reported at Internet
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38919384/configure-meld-encoding-to-cp-1252
-
https://qastack.kr/ubuntu/839755/meld-shows-output-in-unreadable-alphabet-japanese-chinese
This site seems multi-language supported, but I cannot find its english domain. Sorry.
Edited by SecretU4