problem saving with gEdit and then viewing with Notepad
 

Hi. I'm using gEdit in both Fedora 6 and SUSE 10. I mostly use it to paste interesting text that I cut from web pages and then saving the text into a file.

The problem is that when I save the text into a file I get the following default option:

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data.../geditsave.png

if I accept that and save and then move the file to a Windows machine and open it with Notepad then the text does not look as it should - you'd see all the text in one line, and the line breaks as the 'blank square' special character.

Any idea on how can I solve this? I notice that Notepad saves its text into ANSI encoding, and gEdit only gives me options to save it in 'Current Locale UTF-8', 'Western ISO 8859-1', 'Western ISO 8859-15'. I don't see the option in gEdit to save the file in ANSI encoding, and I cannot 'Add' it.

BRgds

Linux saves text files differently then windows
you have to use a conveter to convert the files from linux to windows

A (very) quick and dirty solution is to open it in Wordpad and resave it. Wordpad seems to handle encoding differently than Notepad.

unix2dos is probably what you need. Most distros have this package in their repos.

dos2unix/unix2dos
 

dos2unix --> for files created in Windows
unix2dos --> for files created in Linux and UNIX

Pretty sure that should work.

Thanks guys.

Using WordPad does solve the problem: you open the 'unix' file with WordPad and it's already readable. If you want to keep a converted copy then select in WordPad to save the file as type TextDocument-MSDOSFormat.

Unix2dos also works; too bad it's a Terminal utility.
I use it like this:
$ unix2dos -n inputfile outputfile.txt
and then move the file outputfile.txt to the Windows machine.

BRgds

Notepad++
 

The other tool you could use and I really like is Notepad++, its free and you can find it at sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/) I like this tool for writing scripts in and you can easily open a new document and copy your work over then save it as the txt file (which would default to DOS because Notepad++ is a Windows APP). The documents you currently have open in the program are also in tabs so you can switch through many documents at once - great for multitasking.

Enjoy!