Latin1 encoded files are not auto-detected

[clarking]

I need to "Reopen file with Encoding" for a Latin-1 file every time i open that file to show accented chars correctly, i tried to save the file with the new encoding but does not work.

i wish Vscode can auto-detect the encoding or at least remember the encoding of the file when i open it.

Thank you guys, keep up the awesome work.

Version 1.14.2
Commit cb82feb
Date 2017-07-19T23:26:08.116Z
Shell 1.6.6
Renderer 56.0.2924.87
Node 7.4.0

• OS Version:
  Xubuntu 16.04 xenial
  4.10.0-30-generic Javascript - regular expressions are not colored - Javascript mode instantiated twice #34~16.04.1-Ubuntu

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a Latin-1 file in editor (displays in UTF-8 by default)
2. Change encoding to Western (ISO-8859-1)
3. Save and close the file
4. Open same file again and it's displayed as UTF-8

[bpasero]

@clarking does it help if you configure "files.autoGuessEncoding": true ?

[clarking]

thank you for the response, when i use the option "files.autoGuessEncoding": true the file displays correctly but assigns the Windows 1252 encoding which is very similar to ISO-8859-1, it will be amazing if the editor can remember the encoding you set to the file when you open it for the first time. In the meantime i will keep the autoguesscontent option enabled

thank you again and keep up the awesome work

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