How to set encoding in gedit 3.2?

I can not display file coded with GBK. In gconf-editor of gnome 3.2 , I can not find encoding item of gedit . How to set it ? thanks

3 Answers

I don't have a file encoded in GBK to test the solutions, but do try them.

Option 1: Run gedit and then open the file:

• run gedit

• click open

• select in the encoding combo "add" and add GB18030 (or GBK)

• select that encoding in the combo

• select the file

Option 2:

• install and run gconf-editor

• Find /apps/gedit-2/preferences/encoding key "auto_detected" and set it to:

  [CURRENT,GB18030,GBK,GB2312,UTF-8,UTF-16]

Remember to backup the previous value of auto_detected!!

Option 3: Using dconf (the "newer" gconf, used in ubuntu)

dconf read /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected

Save the result (backup)!

dconf write /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected "['CURRENT', 'GBK', 'GB18030', 'GB2312', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16']"

Sources:

To reset it to default: a) use the option you backed up from dconf read command

or b) try:

dconf reset /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected

If you want do it quick then install medit. All works from the box.

If you still want use gedit then you need do some work:

1. Set auto-detect

   gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.encodings auto-detected "['UTF-8', 'GBK', 'CURRENT', 'ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-16']"

2. Install plugin for manual choose encoding. Really useful, especially when auto-detect don't detect encoding properly

"Change encoding" plugin for gedit v3

# Download plugin
mkdir -p /tmp/encoding
cd /tmp/encoding
wget
tar -xzvf gedit-encoding-plugin.tar.gz
# Copy to plugins directory
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
cp /tmp/encoding/gedit-encoding-plugin/encoding.plugin /tmp/encoding/gedit-encoding-plugin/encodingpy.py ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
# Remove /tmp/encoding
rm -Rf /tmp/encoding

Then run gedit. Choose Edit->Preferences->Plugins(tab)->Check "Encoding" checkbox. After you do that you can find "Encoding" in menu "File"

Plugin description:

Plugin for gedit v2. Same author as in plugin above: (this is .tgz ext, but be careful it is a tar only archive) or plugin for gedit v2 by another author:

!!! plugin for gedit v2 has got tar.gz ext, but it is only a tar archive that is not gzipped...

Ubuntu 18.10 gconf-editor is removed. Use 'dconf-editor' as an instead.Or use command line tool 'dconf'. And 'auto-detected' is replaced by 'candidate-encodings' :

dconf write /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/candidate-encodings "['CURRENT', 'GBK', 'GB18030', 'GB2312', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16']"