Setting encoding in Kate

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2017-09-04, 22:46:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Is there a way to mark a file as using a specific encoding? Like some
> string inside a C comment that Kate recognizes?

I think Kate does understand comments like this, I vaguely remember seeing 
some for giving hints on intentation.

So I've checked my KDE source and found this

// kate: encoding utf-8

and

/* kate: encoding utf-8 */

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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