Allow to configure a list of encodings to use when guessing

The files.autoGuessEncoding=true doesn’t work well in some circumstances.

I think that would be good if you guys add some features like files.forceEncoding="encode1:encode2,encode3:encode4".

So it can force ‘encode1’ to ‘encode2’. That’s a solution for wrong encoding detection I think.

[phobos2077]

I agree. In my environment we have files in two encodings - UTF-8 and Windows1251 (most popular text file encoding in Russia), so I need to use encoding detection. However, it sometimes detects windows1251-encoded files as “maccyrillic” or “Windows1252” or some other encoding that I’ve never seen in my life 😄 Definitely need a setting like

files.detectEncodings=["utf8","windows1251]

So instead of just “true”, you can specify which encodings you want it to detect from. As far as I know, encoding detection works based on probabilities (you can’t 100% say which files is which encoding, so the software has to pick the most probable answer), so I think it is possible to implement - just filter out the list of possible encoding to those user selected.

[bpasero]

Verification: There is now a files.guessableEncodings setting where you can fill in encodings to support when guessing. From the explanation: If provided, will restrict the list of encodings that can be used when guessing. If the guessed file encoding is not in the list, the default encoding will be used.

Update: I decided to rename the setting to files.guessableEncodings