UTF8 Converter

Brackets extension for encoding files to UTF8 format

(Short) Introduction

First and foremost, this project is a fork of Az-Encode written by Jimmy Brian Anamaria Torres, so, many thanks to him !
At first, I just wanted to update one of the node package, but I need more features, so I decided to extend the original project in order to add what I need, and maybe what others need.
It'll be deprecated once the Brackets' team add support to other file format than UTF8 but... well, who cares ? and since Brackets is a great open-source text editor, it would be too bad to not use it because it can't open (yet) files that aren't encoded using UTF8.

HOW-TO

To install this extension (still under development, you'll have to bear with me), just copy the whole project folder to Brackets extension folder.
You can access this folder from Brackets (Help > Show Extensions Folder).
Next, you'll have to Restart Node from Brackets (Debug > Restart Node) and reload Brackets with extensions (Debug > Reload With Extensions ... or F5).

Once installed, you can right-click on a folder and :

• click "Detect Encoding".
  It'll navigate through the files (and subfolders - see "Missing features") and display a bottom panel with a list of files and a button to "Convert" each file to UTF8.
  Don't be afraid of losing any of your files, this extension creates a copy of the converted file with a ".utf8" tag added to it (before the extension name, of course).

• click "Convert to UTF8". It'll convert a whole folder to UTF8 but creating a copy of it and converting everything in it (even subfolders if the settings allow it)

• click "Encoding Settings" It'll give you a bit of control over the module, you can disable the ability to detect/convert subfolders, or remove the action "Convert to UTF8" if you don't want to do it by mistake.

Ignored files

JSChardet may fails to detect some encoding.
In that case, this extension will (for the moment) ignore the file.

Used packages

Since this project uses some NodeJS packages, let's introduce them !

• The core of this extension is iconv-lite which handles the conversion.
• jschardet is also used to provide some information about the encoding.
• path from nodejs main package

And... that's it !

Features

• [x] Split functions and modules to separate files
• [x] Switch to coffeescript (warning : Brackets will work with Javascript only)
• [x] Ability to dig through files
• [x] Add preference UI (option to dig [or not] into sub-folders, convert on the fly, ...)
• [ ] Change bottom panel interface (ie : group files by folders, ...)
• [x] Ability to convert whole folders (create a copy of that folder with an extension to the name)
• [x] Ability to detect encoding/convert a single file (Brackets' error message prevent the use of such functionality on unreadable files... still exists just in case)
• [ ] Add more comments to coffeescripts !
• [ ] Handle files with no encoding detected (display them in a panel maybe...)

Other features that MAY be added (one day)

• [ ] React to "UNSUPPORTED_ENCODING_ERR" to provide a way to suggest a conversion (I don't know if it's possible ... gotta check the API)
• [ ] Work ASYNC