bug 3203: try to load as local 8-bit encoded when it is not utf-8

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@18356 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/src/callback.cpp b/src/callback.cpp
index cdb6686f98944a3d0e2a1f1552d30a434eb4b55a..05a89db2459027919a5ce318659a087b2f30e521 100644 (file)
--- a/src/callback.cpp
+++ b/src/callback.cpp
@@ -399,7 +399,18 @@ docstring const getContentsOfPlaintextFile(BufferView * bv, string const & f,
 #endif
 
        // FIXME UNICODE: We don't know the encoding of the file
-       return normalize_kc(from_utf8(tmpstr));
+       docstring file_content = from_utf8(tmpstr);
+       if (file_content.empty()) {
+               Alert::error(_("Reading not UTF-8 encoded file"), 
+                                       _("The file is not UTF-8 encoded.\n"
+                                       "It will be read as local 8Bit-encoded.\n"
+                                       "If this does not give the correct result\n"
+                                       "then please change the encoding of the file\n"
+                                       "to UTF-8 with a program other than LyX.\n"));
+               file_content = from_local8bit(tmpstr);
+       }
+       
+       return normalize_kc(file_content);
 }