Open file with specific encoding/charset

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Description

Problem

Using UTF-8 all-the-time is truly a relief. But in reality, it happens that the source files are not encoded in UTF-8 and it looks bad then opened in theia. An example is shown below:

The screenshot comes from a file that is encoded in GB 2312. And the garbled line is supposed to be a comment in Chinese.

Solution of Visual Studio Code

There seems to be a solution on vscode where I found this on the right bottom window:

After clicking this, two commands pumped up:

Executing the first command, I got this:

which is really nice because everything works fine after I chose the recommended encoding. I couldn't find anything related on theia, not even a setting. I could have, of course, re-encoded all my files into UTF-8, but the way how vscode does this is just more elegant.

In the End

If there happens to be some other way to set the encoding/charset on theia, please tell me. If not, it will be really nice to have the feature on theia in some later version.

Reproduction Steps

None

OS and Theia version:
OS: Linux
Version: 0.6.0

Diagnostics:
None

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I have made some progress on this issue, and I want to show you two demos. The first one shows the ability to change encoding for the current editor. The other one shows the ability to set the default encoding from the configurations.

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”Save with encoding" command supported:

1. save with encoding (unchanged file)
   

2. save with encoding (dirty file)