How do I see the current encoding of a file in Sublime Text

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How do I see the current encoding of a file in Sublime Text   This seems like a pretty simple thing to do but searching has not yielded much  Any pointers would be appreciated

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For my part  and without any plug-in  simply saving the file either from the File menu or with keyboards shortcuts  CTRL   S  Windows  Linux  or CMD   S  Mac OS   briefly displays the current encoding - between parentheses - in the status bar  at the bottom of the editor s window  This suggestion works in Sublime Text 2 and 3   Note that the displayed encoding to the right in the status bar of Sublime Text 3  may display the wrong encoding of the file if you have attempted to save the file with an encoding that can t represent all the characters in your file   In this case you would have seen an informational dialog and Sublime telling you it s falling back to UTF-8  This may not be the case  so be careful

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With the EncodingHelper plugin you can view the encoding of the file on the status bar  Also you can convert the encoding of the file and extended another functionalities

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plugin ConverToUTF8 also has the functionality

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ShowEncoding is another simple plugin that shows you the encoding in the status bar  That s all it does  to convert between encodings use the built-in  Save with Encoding  and  Reopen with Encoding  commands

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Since this thread is a popular result in google search  here is the way to do it for sublime text 3 build 3059   in user preferences  add the line    show encoding   true

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Another option in case you don t wanna use a plugin   Ctrl    or  View - gt  Show Console  type on the console the following command   view encoding     In case you want to something more intrusive  there s a option to create an shortcut that executes the following command   sublime message dialog view encoding

[encoding] How do I see the current encoding of a file in Sublime Text?

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