#387 Joe assumes iso-8859-1 file encoding
In an UTF-8 locale on openSUSE Leap 15 beta JOE sets the file encoding to iso-8859-1 even if the file only contains utf-8 characters. As I'm a developer myself, where could I look to find the reason for this strange behaviour as it worked OK in previous versions of openSUSE Leap?
Output of locale is:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Shortened output of running /lib64/libc-2.26.so :
GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.26 (git 1c9a5c270d8b), by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Configured for x86_64-suse-linux.
Compiled by GNU CC version 7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812].
Available extensions:
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC
I forgot that I first tried JOE 4.4 that comes with Leap and then packaged 4.6 which behaves just the same.
I may be able to take a closer look (repro, etc) at some point, but if you want to have a try then take a look here
I guess one more data point I should ask for is whether you have
-guess_utf8,-guess_non_utf8or neither set in your config?