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Viewing Jar files & encoding
Submitted by paulvon on Thursday, 6 November, 2008 - 16:46
When I use jEdit (4.3 pre 15) to view a jar file. I am having an encoding issue.

a) Error message on start - The file could not be loaded correctly ... with the encoding xxx
b) There are a lot of square boxes in the code.

I assume that this is an encoding related issue. I have tried a number of various encoding schemes and I always get the items mentioned above.

In addition I have added a number of Plug-ins but they have not resolved the issue.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
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A JAR isn't a text file. So,
by Robert Schwenn on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 20:24
A JAR isn't a text file. So, what do You expect to see? jEdit compares the bytes of the file against the chosen encoding. And if only one byte or byte sequence doesn't match the encoding an error message is shown.

If You want a hex editor - jEdit isn't the first choice unfortunately.

Robert
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