Feature request: option for file encoding column in panes

[Aaron]

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion. As Michael has pointed out, it is something we've had requested in the past and is on our Customer Wishlist. I have updated our notes on the subject.

@Michael, Thanks for the reference collection. That will help other users that stumble upon this forum post.

[CrispinH]

Michael

Thanks for the links.

I do mostly web work and having ANSI files around is getting to be bad news. Once I've identified and change the encoding of ANSI files to utf-8, the problems go away.

[Michael Bulgrien]

Hi Crispin,

This has come up several times before in the forums. For example, here are a couple threads from as early as 23-Mar-2008:

http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbull...read.php?t=313
http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbull...ead.php?t=3849

[CrispinH]

Sometimes I get problems when files I am comparing differ only by their file encoding eg ANSI vs utf-8. When a two files are compared, the encoding is shown in the bar at the top, but when comparing folders this data would have to appear in a column alongside Name, Size, Modified, etc. Some mechanism of showing differences in file encoding (maybe just that cell going red) would also be useful.

Thanks

Crispin