Errors Loading UTF-8 formatted files via Chrome App

[MaBecker]

External editor

WebIDE - Chrome App, v0.75.8

WebIDE - https://www.espruino.com/ide/

Sample text

umlauts.js.txt

More infos: http://forum.espruino.com/comments/16077675/

Any idea how to handle this?

[MaBecker]

possible workaround .....

[gfwilliams]

If I:

• Load the file in Chrome App under Linux: works
• Load the file in espruino.com/ide: same issue you see for online IDE
• Copy/paste the file in online IDE: works

Does it work for you when you copy/paste?

At least for espruino.com/ide the root cause is that your file is actuallt a UTF8 text file. It actually contains those extra characters that you see. If you upload the attached (non-UTF8) file then it may actually work for you?

umlauts2.js.txt

So I guess we need to detect UTF8 files somehow and convert them? I don't know if this is something the Web Browser would actually handle automatically

[MaBecker]

Does it work for you when you copy/paste?

Yes copy paste works

If you upload the attached (non-UTF8) file then it may actually work for you?

Yes it does

Just checking Sublime settings

	// The encoding to use when the encoding can't be determined automatically.
	// ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings will be automatically detected.
	"fallback_encoding": "Western (Windows 1252)",

	// Encoding used when saving new files, and files opened with an undefined
	// encoding (e.g., plain ascii files). If a file is opened with a specific
	// encoding (either detected or given explicitly), this setting will be
	// ignored, and the file will be saved with the encoding it was opened
	// with.
	"default_encoding": "UTF-8",

So saving the files as non-UTF-8 does the trick - Many thanks!

[gfwilliams]

Renamed - and lets leave this open. Ideally the IDE would be able to load UTF8 and convert it either way.

Lets ignore the Chrome App for now as at some point Google are still planning to kill it.