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bug #62808: dir_encoding: clarify docs about deleting and global encoding

Submitter:  Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Submitted:  Sun 24 Jul 2022 11:31:00 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
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Sun 24 Jul 2022 11:31:00 PM UTC, original submission:  

"help dir_encoding":

>     The NEW_ENCODING input must be a valid encoding identifier or
>     "delete".  In the latter case, any per-directory encoding is
>     removed and the (globally set) m-file encoding will be used for the
>     given DIR.


1.  perhaps this should reference how to query that default globally set encoding.  Is that "@pref{__mfile_encoding__}"?  Am I right there is not yet a no public way to query this?  (Well, ... `dir_encoding("/hello_Im_not_a_real_path")` ...  but ick?)

2.  Does this adequately explain that deleting is "temporary" in the sense that revisiting a directory can change the encoding?


>> d = "/home/cbm/src/octave-doctest.git/test_extra/test_encoding"
d = /home/cbm/src/octave-doctest.git/test_extra/test_encoding
>> s = dir_encoding (d)
s = utf-8
>> cd (d)
>> cd ..
>> s = dir_encoding (d)
s = windows-1252
>> dir_encoding(d, "delete")
>> s = dir_encoding (d)
s = utf-8
>> cd (d)
>> cd ..
>> s = dir_encoding (d)
s = windows-1252
-vertabim-

Similarly one can chance the encoding in the DB and have it reset by changing to the directory:
+verbatim+
>> dir_encoding (d, "windows-1253")
>> s = dir_encoding (d)
s = windows-1253
>> cd (d)                  # <--- note this resets it
>> s = dir_encoding (d)    # back to windows-1252
s = windows-1252


Maybe we can say:

> Note that changing or deleting the encoding is transient and may be refreshed by the contents of a @code{.oct-config} file if DIR is added to the load path (e.g., by changing the current working directory or manipulating the path).



Colin Macdonald <cbm>

 

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