@boomzilla said:
@blakeyrat said:@boomzilla said:So now a bug includes doing what the user said to do?Oh! How stupid of me! I told it to display gibberish instead of French! I guess I just don't remember doing that.
@boomzilla said:
Perhaps you can explain what the actual bug would be without ranting.The screenshot wasn't enough?
No. You would need to answer DaveK's questions first, I believe, to confirm that it's a bug. Unless you're claiming something like, "there's only one way to represent 'French' and Netbeans doesn't handle it properly." Or maybe you're just not familiar enough or comfortable enough with the modern world of computer representations of text to understand why the encodings are important. That would explain why you seem to think that they shouldn't matter. It might be a Netbeans bug. But there are other simpler explanations that are very common, and which explain this issue very well.
So, a good bug description would be along the lines of, "I have Netbeans configured to use encoding XYZ for this project (or however it's set), and I open a file in ABC encoding, and it looks like gibberish instead of the correct characters." Did your screenshot contain all of that? I couldn't see that information. Does the text display correctly in another editor? What encoding is that set to use? Etc.
The point that blakeyrat is making is that he shouldn't have to tell NetBeans anything. NetBeans should automatically detect that the encoding should be set to French, without blakeyrat himself needing to do anything at all. In the same way, blakeyrat is now on another forum, complaining about why his TV channels don't automatically display the programs that he'd like to see. That's the only reason he's only posting here 6 hours of every day, because he's spending the other hours on all the other forums around the world for all the other products that can't read his mind. When does he get any real work done, I wonder.