FC4 / character encoding - Writer / gedit

[Tim]

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 23:16 -0400, Marc M wrote:
> I got this message on a new build FC4 machine that says that 
> 
> gedit was not able to automatically detect the character coding.
> Please, check that you are not trying to open a binary file and try
> again selecting a character coding in the 'Open File...' (or 'Open
> Location') dialog.  

You could try using the "file" command to identify it.  Or just seeing
if you can see something if you open it with the "less" command.

> Writer app is unable to open the .doc file that someone sent me.  I
> have no idea how to check if it is binary or not and I thought that
> mainly meant flat text files.

You thought *what* meant flat text files?  Files with a .doc suffix?
Such named files were generally Microsoft Word documents.

If it is a word processor document, you're not going to have much luck
getting gedit to read it.

> I am poking around Writer but havent' fixed it, any ideas anyone or is
> there a quick rpm I can grab for another app that might work better
> than Writer or gedit?

What's "writer"?

OpenOffice.org can open a wide variety of file formats.  You might try
AbiWord, too (it's a much smaller application).

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