Can jEdit auto-detect character encodings when it opens a file?
Only Unicode can be detected when a file is loaded. For other encodings, you must specify the encoding when the file is loaded if you do not wish to use the default encoding for your operating system. There are a few features that can help you navigate through encoding issues. You can select the encoding you wish to use from Encoding in the Commands menu of the File System Browser. You can also designate a default encoding in the Loading & Saving pane of the Global Options dialog; if you do not, jEdit adopts your operating system’s default encoding as its own default. You can change the encoding used to save an individual file by selecting Utilities>Buffer Options and changing the current buffer’s properties. Finally, jEdit keeps track of the encodings used in the files named in the File>Recent Files drop-down list. These features allow you to minimize the attention given to character encodings, but you must still pay some attention if you do not want to use default settings.
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