encoding support for preview text attachment

[myonlylonely]

Problem Statement

We have send some text/plain log files via envelope API.
But some log files are not UTF8 encodings. Some of them are generated on Windows, with the default encoding of GBK. And some are UTF16LE. Since we cannot control the encodings, as they are generated by 3rd programs. We do not want to convert them before sending, as they are big, and some of them require other tools to read (which is depending on the specific encoding).

Solution Brainstorm

It would be nice if we could support preview text files in different encodings.
I think we could let user choice the encodings in the browser, or we could add a field to specify encoding for text/plain in the sending API.

Product Area

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[getsantry]

Auto-routing to @getsentry/product-owners-issues for triage ⏲️

[mrduncan]

Hi @myonlylonely - just to confirm, the ask here is to support plain text files with non-utf8 encodings in previews?

[myonlylonely]

@mrduncan yes, just the previews.