More elegant handling of encoding choices in drop-down menu

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I would love to see future versions of The Unarchiver have the option to
show filename encoding results shown in the drop down menu alongside the
encoding name. It can be tiresome for those problem files to have to select
each one to get a preview each time a choice is presented. Is there a
chance of this happening?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mokojum...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2007 at 6:09

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that was supposed to be filed as an enhancement, by the way.

Original comment by mokojum...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2007 at 6:10

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That does sound like a decent idea.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2007 at 8:13

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Speaking of which, I think it could be a tad smarter too. Older, mostly 
mac-specific file types such as MacBinary 
and BinHex (and perhaps StuffIt) would most likely be using MacRoman encoding 
but the default selection 
always seems to be something like Western (ISO Latin 1).
Also, if I choose to stop at this point it extracts the file anyway using the 
currently selected encoding.

Original comment by andrew...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2007 at 12:40

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The popup menu now contains the result for each encoding type possible, styled 
to try and minimize clutter. It 
might need some further tweaking, though.

The encoding picking is marginally smarter in the new engine, too, but could 
probably be improved.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2009 at 2:08

• Changed state: Fixed