Krdytkyu

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

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:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/819714


• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576047#c2


• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1456308


• http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?p=221205&http#p221205

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 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ge/gedit-encoding-plugin/gedit-encoding-plugin.tar.gz

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:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-encoding-plugin/

Plugin for gedit v2. Same author as in plugin above:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=108326 (this is .tgz ext, but be careful it is a tar only archive)
or plugin for gedit v2 by another author:
http://petrstepanov.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/gedit-encoding-plugin/

!!! 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']"