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Provide encoding-related APIs for editor extensions

See original GitHub issue

Currently there are only two fields in the TextEditorOptions API, a few other TextEditor-related APIs, and none of them is able to deal with the text buffer’s encoding. Comparing to Atom’s TextEdit API, that is far from enough.

Most importantly, the API limitation makes it (seems) impossible for vscode-editorconfig to implement features like charset support, which is a crucial need for many people.

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments:43 (3 by maintainers)

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irudoycommented, Mar 23, 2022

There are much more important features that should be implemented. For example, in May, it was done:

Explore improved positioning of the debug toolbar #2513 (WOW)
Recommend language packs based on the locale of the OS #45663 (AMAZING)
Custom view API enhancements: Support to listen the expand/collapse state #30535 (such a collapse API, BOOM)
Cosmetic changes to issue reporter #49579 (😱)

Encoding-related issues have low priority, because they are related to text editing. As you might guess, text editing is not important for a text editor.

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gingerbeardmancommented, Mar 23, 2022

Woof woof woof

(one for each year this bug has been alive)

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