gedit not able to save - character encoding problem

[Philippe Landau]

you are right:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-October.txt.gz
is in UTF-8, and gedit tried to save it as ISO-8859-1

i think gedit should not only give the error message and refuse,
it should point to the possibility of save-as and other encoding,
as you did.

could it happen with other data that no fitting encoding could be found 
so that it is impossible to save using gedit ?

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> 
> with gedit you can specify if you want to save the document in your
> local encoding or in utf-8, so this problem is weird.
> 
> Could you give all the steps to reproduce the problem ?
> 1- which source document you use
> 2- how to copy/paste (middle click, ctrl+C/ctrl+V, ...)
> 3- when do you get the error (when you paste ? when you save ?)
> 4- which encoding are you trying to use ?
> 
> 
> 
>>> the first is there may be incompatible characters
>>> in the text that you offer for download (i used the compressed one)
> 
> 
> No, the text is ok.
> 
> 
> 
>>> and the fact that gedit offers no way to save the data.
> 
> 
> You can pick the Charactere Coding when you "save as", that should work
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sebastien Bacher