Lister - add custom character encoding, like ISO8859-2

[krapet]

Current possibility to display text by Lister are:

• (A) ansi-windows
  (S) ASCII-DOS
  (V) variable char width
  (6) Unicode
  (7) UTF-8

There is no way to display other encoding correctly like ISO-8859-2

It will be fine when change of encoding affects also different view modes e.g. text only, binary, HEX, HTML.

[ghisler(Author)]

You can show other encodings by choosing a different font, e.g. for 'v' (variable width) font view.

[krapet]

Unfortunately it is not possible. I'm not able to select character coding, I can choose only character group for region (Western, Central European, Arabic, Greek, ...)

Generally, for "Central Europe" can be used at least four code pages: IBM-852, MacCE, Windows-1250 and ISO-8859-2 plus two universal UTF-8 and UNICODE.

Simultaneously, all file-types can be stored in different character encoding.

In Lister menu are mixed two different things: file-type (1,2,3,4,5) and character encoding (6,7,A,S,V).

I would like to be able to see every file-type (Text only, Binary, HEX, HTML)
in selected character encoding (IBM-852, MacCE, Windows-1250, ISO-8859-2, ...)
like for example in FireFox.

[Dark-Star]

I already requested that feature in the german section of the board some time ago: link

For me, selecting a custom font is not possible either (and even if it was, it's very awkward to go to options, change the font, view a file, then change the font back, if all I want to do is view a single file...)

There's a difference between the "charset" (i.e. what you select in the "font" dialog: central europe, cyrillic, ...) and the "encoding" (i.e. how the special characters are represented in bits and bytes).

I'm often working with files encoded in SJIS, EUC-JP and GB2312 for example. A feature to convert those to unicode "on the fly" (for example by using libiconv) would be very appreciated.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately such a change doesn't fit into the current implementation of lister, sorry.

[Alextp]

2Dark-Star
You may try the View64, codepages are implemented there.

[SirZooro]

I think that TC should allow to choose both character encoding and font used for displaying (variable or fixed width). For encoding support you can use libiconv library (GNU license).

[Dark-Star]

As long as iconv is LGPL and not GPL, it should be okay to use in TC.

However, since that feature would only need a 1-way mapping from (any codepage)->Unicode/UCS, there is a simpler solution: One would simply need to create such a mapping table for each supported codepage. ISO-8859-X would be very easy to implement, and at least Shift_JIS and EUC-JP wouldn't be that hard either.

With that, there would be no need to add a dependency on a custom library (which I know is something that the author often wants to avoid )

[Alextp]

Support for mult encodings will be added to Lister alternative (see signature).
I will not use libiconv, however, I'll use OS functions for that: all needed encodings are implemented there under WinXP+.

[ghisler(Author)]

It's not that simple. There are many many other locations where the encoding is important:
- search function
- highlighting of text
- printing
- copy to clipboard