Setting encoding in Kate

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/09/17 15:53, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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 */

It's recognized, but doesn't work. If I set:

   /* kate: encoding cp 1252 */

on the first line of the file, then "Tools->Encoding" actually reflects 
that, but the file is not shown correctly. It still shows solid blocks 
for CP1252 characters.

Even worse, if I have that comment in the file and try to switch the 
encoding manually (from and to CP1252), then Kate corrupts the file by 
deleting the unrecognized "block" characters.