<p dir="auto">Atom should definitely have an option to open file with user-chosen encoding. Currently as I can see there is only a UTF-8 support.</p>
<p dir="auto">Encoding selection when opening and saving a file is an absolutely must-have. And features such as an automatic encoding detection may be currently postponed for future releases.</p>
<p dir="auto">We've received a few user requests about this, so decided to make an issue to track this:</p>
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<li>support/c1efbd22aac011e3824485c02873dc32#C3</li>
<li>support/6026ed1eb23511e39be96d50cc8424ad</li>
<li>support/4ab67e5aaf6411e388d6c56073fdae1e</li>
</ul>
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<p dir="auto">The editor can only reads UTF-8 files. It will be very handy to be able to support multiple encodings.</p>
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<p dir="auto">...</p>
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<p dir="auto">I need to change the encode of my code, but I cant find where I could change from UTF-8 for Windows 1252 for example.</p>
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