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Gedit - how to set default encoding opening?

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Mar 15, 20266113 views
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Problem

I would like to somehow make Gedit on my sister's laptop to open text files in Windows1250 (CP1250-Winlatin2) encoding by default. She has a plenty of ebooks in txt format and opening them in LibreOffice is not much comfortable. I need to use Gedit or some similar GTK app, which is fully accessible…

Error Output

Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) release.
    GNOME: 2.30.0 (Ubuntu 2010-03-31)
    Kernel version: 2.6.32-22-generic (#36-Ubuntu SMP T…

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Fix for: Gedit - how to set default encoding opening?

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create executable script and set it as default text editor in gnome. (right click on any text file, open with, remember...)

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