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[Daniel Manrique <daniel.manrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I set this as Confirmed, with importance: Wishlist as it is a feature
request. I also linked to an upstream bug from the gnome project, there
has been some discussion as to whether to implement this feature.

Thanks for your report!

** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #156199
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156199

** Also affects: gedit via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156199
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  Gedit won't let me edit binary files to look for text

Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
  Unknown
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Gedit won't let me view/edit text files it cant figure out the charset
  of files it cannot work out the charset of.

  All other editors let you open binary files, and see if you recognise
  any strings etc.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gedit 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Sep 12 21:27:48 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gedit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  XsessionErrors:
   (nautilus:1315): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
   (nautilus:1315): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_drag_set_icon_pixmap: assertion `!mask || gdk_window_get_screen (mask) == screen' failed
   (nautilus:1315): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
   (nautilus:1315): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_drag_set_icon_pixmap: assertion `!mask || gdk_window_get_screen (mask) == screen' failed

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