[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54310] Synchronize file encoding used in editor with the one used for executing m files

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #54310 (project octave):

Thanks Torsten!
Changing the setting with __mfile_encoding__ also successfully changes the
editor setting in the preferences for me on Ubuntu Linux. I'll try with a
Windows cross-build later.
Changing the encoding setting in the preferences dialog doesn't change the
__mfile_encoding__ for me. But I guess that isn't implemented yet.

I didn't realize that iconv and Qt used different names to identify the
encodings. That might complicate things as there is no way of querying a list
of all valid encodings from iconv (as of now).
However, iconv seems to be more "forgiving" when it comes to using alternative
character codec identifiers: *__mfile_encoding__ ("cp1252")* seems to work as
does *__mfile_encoding__ ("windows-1252")*. At least on Ubuntu 18.04.
So we might be able to just set whatever Qt uses as an identifier for iconv as
well.

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