More charset encodings

[Gingko]

Hello,

It happens sometimes that I want to compare files with less usual encodings.

But Compare It! encoding support seems to be very weak, and limited to what seems to be an automatic detection, for Ansi/Latin1/Win1252 and UTF-8.

It would be great if more encodings could be supported, either by profile or by manual change.

I think especially about .bat / .cmd files which are still needing, for historical reasons, to use a legacy encoding like cp437 (or cp850 in French).

I tried to create a comparison profile for that, but this would need to have comparison profiles able to be associated with a text encoding, and this doesn't seem to be the case.

Regards,

Gingko

[grigsoft]

Hello,
Could you please check http://grigsoft.com/wincmp4bu.zip ?
It has customizable encodings list. We can add link encoding to profile later.

[Gingko]

Hello Igor,

This sounds better, thank you. I tried to add cp437 and cp850, and it works if I select it manually now.

Hope having some way to not have to select it manually in the future.

(which could be selection by extension, or by profile, or even keeping a list of files having been manually set…)

Gingko

[grigsoft]

Well, once it's actually working, we can consider how to use it better. I guess we can add it to comparison profile, or, maybe even better, to file filters, as additional property.

[grigsoft]

I have added encoding selection to file filters. check same beta version file.

[Gingko]

I have added encoding selection to file filters. check same beta version file.

Hi Igor,

Likely it is a false positive, but my Windows Defender reports this one as a malware …
(but not only scan tools)

Gingko