Feature Request: Console output encoding selector

[shoedler]

Just a small request. It would be nice to be able to set the charset for the stdout stream in the process-palette.json

The stdout of our compiler is in Windows 1252. Process-palette Shows it presumably in UTF-8

Another solution: Process-palette could also just use my preffered encoding type according to my core settings (Which in my case would be Windows 1252)

If anyone could help out with that, that would be great!
Thanks in advance

[morassman]

The output panel is a simple div and AFAIK it's not possible to set the encoding on a particular div. HTML5 defines a meta tag where one can specify the encoding, but it then applies to the whole DOM.

However. Atom's TextEditor class allows one to set the encoding for each instance of an editor. I'm not sure how they manage that behind the scenes, but their API allows one to do that. To take advantage of that I'll have to change the output panel to use an instance of TextEditor instead of a plain div. It might be a small change or it might open a can of worms and since the output panel is rather central to the package, I'll have to tread carefully around it.

I'll have to see what I can do about that.