1. yes and no.

To convert a document from some encoding to the other, go to “edit” -> “Convert to uft8 from” and select the encoding.

The plugins tries to guess the encoding and on the menu will show “convert to uft8 from guessed$here”

look at the screenshot!

When start，it shows the error message:
Reloading plugin E:\Sublime Text 2\Data\Packages\EncodingHelper\EncodingHelper.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “.\sublime_plugin.py”, line 62, in reload_plugin
File “.\EncodingHelper.py”, line 362, in
encoding_cache = EncodingCache()
File “.\EncodingHelper.py”, line 311, in init
self.load()
File “.\EncodingHelper.py”, line 334, in load
self.encoding_cache = json.load(fp)
NameError: global name ‘json’ is not defined
please help

That message is not from this plugin.

Try installing this: github.com/SublimeText/EncodingHelper

Is this plugin work with ST3?

No yet…

github.com/SublimeText/EncodingHelper/tree/st3

I can’t get the encoding to show up in the status bar. I can see it’s set to “true” in the default settings but it doesn’t show up. I used the repository url for the ST3 branch (github.com/SublimeText/EncodingHelper.git).

Sublime Text version: 3 build 3047
EncodingHelper version: 2013.05.23.22.42.39

I’ve had problems with this (very valuable!) plugin and the only way I got it to work with ST3 is to make some pretty significant edits to the chardet library, using http://www.diveinto.org/python3/case-study-porting-chardet-to-python-3.html and a handful of edits to EncodingHelper.py.

The only problem I am having now is that it doesn’t seem to be activated until I reload the plugin (by re-saving EncodingHelper.py) while Sublime is running. Does anyone have any idea why the plugin isn’t active unless it is reloaded?

The branch st3 is the correct version for ST3.

Can anyone give me a hint, how to install this under ST3 please?
I do not understand those instructions “To install for ST3, you should checkout to “st3” branch”
Thank you …

Forgive the newbie question, but I’m using Sublime 2 and this plugin doesn’t show up in Package Control. I added the “https://github.com/SublimeText/EncodingHelper” repository using “Package Control: Add Repository” but it still doesn’t show up under “Package Control: Install Package”, even after restarting ST.

Can someone please help me install it?

Thanks.

Can someone please help me install it?

Hello, this package does not support ST2, install ST3

Managed to install it successfully in ST2:

• “Package Control: Add Repository” -> github.com/titoBouzout/EncodingHelper
• Then EncodingHelper should appear in the results of the install package control command.

Hope this helps.

The link in the edit menu never shows. I’m using sublime text 3 in a mac. I had the packed version and the unziped versiin and neither work. what should I do?

what should I do?
Use the status bar

Managed to install it successfully in ST2:
Nope, does not work correctly in ST2. Use ST3

What do you mean use the status bar? could you be more specific?

the menu is now in the status bar, click the encoding name, there is a new submenu named “Convert to UTF8 from XYZ”

I have it installed, but it does not seem to work. I do not have the menu items and I do not have the bottom bar encoding identifier. Using ST3

Preferences -> Settings - User

// Display file encoding in the status bar "show_encoding": true,