[gedit-list] Converting encodings

[Jon Lapham <lapham extracta com br>]

I am experiencing some problems when working with text files in gedit in 
which the encoding has been changed.

I have an ISO8859-1 encoded file which I edit using gedit with no 
problems.  I wish to convert this file to UTF8 encoding.  Naturally, I 
perform this conversion via "iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 foo > foo.utf8".

The new file "foo.utf8" works correctly with gedit, the accented 
characters appear correctly, and any file alterations result in a file 
with the UTF8 encoding.  The old file "foo" still works correctly with 
gedit.  Great.

However, if I "mv foo.utf8 foo" and then try to edit the resultant "foo" 
file in gedit, gedit continues to think the file is encoded in 
ISO8859-1, garbling the accented characters.

Any suggestions on how to convert text files to UTF8 such that they 
continue to work correctly with gedit?  It is almost as though gedit 
caches the encoding of files it has previously opened.

Thanks!
-Jon

Some extra info:
www office > head -1 /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
www office > rpm -q gedit
gedit-2.4.0-3
www office > echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

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