[KDE] text editor that coverts between encodings

[James Richard Tyrer]

Georgi Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> Can someone point me to a text editor that can convert between differnet 
> encodings? Something like Ultraedit for windows?
> Kate supports multiple encodings , but when someone gives me a file with 
> windows-1251 encoding i need the editor to convert the encoding to UTF-8 for 
> example.
> If i save the file (windows-1251) to UTF-8 i loose all the non-Latin symbols .

If you open a CP-1251 file in Kate:

	File -> Open

with: "cp 1251" selected and it displays correctly.

And then you save it as UTF-8:

	File -> Save As ...

and select: "utf8" and the saved file isn't correct, what you are 
describing is a bug which should be reported.

-- 
JRT
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