[Bug 75151] Refuses to open files where the character encoding is not recognised

[Ian Ross Williams]

Public bug reported:

In Gnome Gedit 2.16.1:
When trying to open an ascii text file that, amongst useful mathematica code, has a few corrupt characters, gedit refuses to open the file and insists that the user select the correct character encoding.  

Desired behaviour:
Open the slightly corrupt file for editing and display a special symbol where the characters have not been recognised using the current character encoding.  A warning stating the character encoding was not recognised would be helpful but should not prevent gedit working.

** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Refuses to open files where the character encoding is not recognised
https://launchpad.net/bugs/75151