I'd recommend downloading the excellent encoding support plugin http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/60487/encoding-support
[image: image.png] Though every time you open a file you'd have to check in the corner if nb is assuming the right encoding and change it if necessary. When working without a project, Does anyone know if there's a default encoding or if Netbeans uses heuristics to guess the file's encoding? I tested by saving a file in ISO-8859-1 with characters that wouldn't have the same byte code in UTF-8 i.e. "áíó" and upon reopening it successfully detected it as ISO-8859-1 but I'm not sure if it detected it or if it "remembered" the last encoding I set. As a last resort, you could simply create a new "Project with existing sources" on an upper folder level and add your source directory as sources for such project, the project's only purpose would be to set the default encoding and nothing else. On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:42 PM Jack Woehr <softwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm I see ... > > Doesn't actually seem to do much at all. > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:34 PM Jack Woehr <softwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I sorta gave up on plugins, even in NetBeans, and just do my own git >> stuff, so I hadn't noticed. >> >> What's short on jEdit's plugin? >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:25 PM Glenn Holmer <ce...@kolabnow.com.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> On 10/28/19 1:33 PM, Jack Woehr wrote: >>> > Try jEdit >>> >>> I am :) We used to use it at work, back in prehistoric times before we >>> were using NetBeans. Unfortunately, its git plugin leaves something to >>> be desired. >>> >> -- -Juan Algaba
