Cannot save with ISO-8859-15 character encoding

Markus Schönhaber fedora-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Tue May 14 16:51:33 UTC 2013


14.05.2013 18:33, Paul Smith:

> I have used gedit for several times on the same document, but I am now
> getting the following error while saving the file:
> 
> Could not save the file /home/psmith/psmith.htm using the Western
> (ISO-8859-15) character encoding.
> 
> Is it possible to save the file with the ISO-8859-15 character encoding?

Yes. Replace all characters in your file which are not contained in
ISO-8859-15 with something else. This "something else" must be, of
course, representable in ISO-8859-15. Since you seem to edit a
HTML-file, character- or entity references come to mind.

That said, you might want to consider saving the file with an encoding
that is less limiting wrt the characters that can be used - for example
UTF-8. This may turn out to be a much better idea in the long run.

-- 
Regards
  mks




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