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manisandro
Add more encodings for saving plain text
Now as i know we support only saving in two encodings: system encoding and UTF-8. Can we add more encodings?
I don't really see the point. UTF-8 is pretty much the way to go.
As a general remark: I'm hesitant to add features just for the sake of adding them. From the feedback I gathered over the years, the program is appreciated by many for being straight forward to use, and I don't want to overload it with options. For many tasks, there are already specialized programs available, I don't think it is very beneficial to re-invent the wheel.
Can you give me any open-source free analog to gIR? I can't.
And, honestly, we shouldn't reinvent anything. Finereader did already before us great work, but it's expensive proprietary project.
I meant concerning text encoding conversion.
Is it difficult to add more encodings?
QString and Glib::ustring definitely don't support much more than utf-8 and latin1
Okay, it's answer for the request :-) Don't close the task please - maybe in the future we will add it :-)
And what use case do you see? Plain-text output is most likely an intermediate format which people then process further, so they just need to be able to read it. UTF-8 will work most of the time, except perhaps on windows, where system-encoding will do. I don't really see why a user would want anything else, and if he really does, there are advanced text editors which can do the job just fine.
Use case: i as simple user want to recognize images to plain text. Imagine that utf-8 isn't so wide-used on my system (yep, windows). But i recognize my images on linux and want to share it to windows. I know about windows encoding, and will be simple for me choose right encoding for windows.
I still see this as a pretty theoretical use case. Just install notepad++ ;)
I still see this as a pretty theoretical use case. Just install notepad++ ;)
Unfortunately not so theoretical. You should know, that FineReader is professional program. and if they added this feature, there is some reason for this. We shouldn't reinvent the wheel, i agree. We should just get the best things from Abbyy and implement it in gIR. And what can i say - Abbyy FineReader is relly good :-) We can learn a lot
Personally I'd rather invest my efforts to work on features users are actually asking for.
I still see this as a pretty theoretical use case. Just install notepad++ ;)
Unfortunately not so theoretical. You should know, that FineReader is professional program. and if they added this feature, there is some reason for this. We shouldn't reinvent the wheel, i agree. We should just get the best things from Abbyy and implement it in gIR. And what can i say - Abbyy FineReader is relly good :-) We can learn a lot
Finereader is a paid software, it is obliged to meet the demands of its customers, many times this demand has such a specific use that it is almost useless, but when you charge for it, you are obliged to attend because if you are a large customer, this can decrease the its influence and market share, this program is free , so it is wiser to spend time implementing something that benefits many people than something that will serve one or two people.
So insisting that it is important without having a considerable number of interested people is boring at times.
