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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="gedit-open-files">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#gedit-working-with-files" group="last"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="gedit-open-files"/>
<desc>When text and characters do not look as expected.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="3.38" date="2020-11-16" status="draft"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Andre Klapper</name>
<email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
<year>2020</year>
</credit>
<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email its:translate="no">shaunm@gnome.org</email>
<year>2009</year>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
</info>
<title>Dealing with character encoding problems</title>
<section id="basics">
<title>Character encodings</title>
<p>A character encoding is a specific way of recording characters internally
in a computer. There are many character encodings.</p>
<p>By default, <app>gedit</app> uses UTF-8, a modern character encoding
that can handle text from most of the world's languages. Another common
encoding for English and some other Western languages is ISO-8859-1.</p>
</section>
<section id="problems">
<title>Problems</title>
<p>If you open a file in a different character encoding than the encoding
in which the file was written, then some or all characters might be displayed
incorrectly.</p>
<p>This can happen if the file was created on another operating system
or if the file uses a different script.</p>
</section>
<section id="solutions">
<title>Solutions</title>
<p>If the content of a text file does not look as expected,
<link xref="gedit-open-files">open the file</link> again by choosing a different
<gui>Character Encoding</gui> at the bottom of the file chooser dialog.</p>
<p>If you have an idea which language is used in the document or in the area
of the original author of the document:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Add or remove…</gui> from the <gui>Character Encoding</gui> dropdown at the bottom of the file chooser dialog.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select one or more languages and their encodings under <gui>Available Encodings</gui> on the left.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press <gui style="button">+</gui> to add the selected encodings to the <gui>Character Encoding</gui> dropdown.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Close the dialog by pressing <gui style="button">Apply</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="tip"><p>If none of these solutions solve the problem, then you
could try to edit the file anyway. It is recommended to first create a backup
copy of your file.</p></note>
</section>
</page>
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