Cannot save with ISO-8859-15 character encoding

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Markus Schönhaber
<fedora-users at list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:
> 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.


Thanks, Markus, for your help and suggestions.

Paul