Refuses to open files where the character encoding is not recognized

Submitted by mlv..@..ox.org

Assigned to Matthew Brush @matt

Link to original bug (#15165)

Description

When I'm trying to open an ascii text file that has a few corrupt characters, Mousepad refuses to open the file and insists that the user select the correct character encoding.

The desired behavior (used by many other text editors) is to open the slightly corrupt file for editing and display a special symbol where the characters have not been recognized using the current character encoding. A warning stating the character encoding was not recognized would be helpful but should not prevent Mousepad from working.

Version: 0.4.1