Autodetect encoding not working properly

[developeris]

Hi,
I have set autodetect in Files/Format/Encoding.
When I open UTF8 encoded file (with BOM present), make some changes and save the file, it gets converted to ANSI. I guess if source is in UTF8, there's nothing to autodetect - just save in UTF8

Or make an option to preserve the original encoding.

pl/sql developer version 10.0.4.1708

thanks
developeris

 

[Marco Kalter]

I assume the file contents were strictly ANSI in this case? Because that is what the autodetect option looks at.

 

[developeris]

I'm not sure how ANSI detection exactly works, but here's the problem I had when UTF8 was replaced with ANSI. Original package source had UTF8 encoding with some Swedish comments in it (with some Swedish special characters in there). I opened it in developer, made some changes, saved, committed into SVN and all of the sudden all rows, which had Swedish comments were showed as changed, even though I didn't change them at all. That's why changing from UTF8 to ANSI is dangerous in my opinion. Option to preserve the original encoding would solve this.