Character encoding of Disch's mapper docs

[tepples]

Disch's mapper docs are incredibly good

Thanks for the recommendation. Adding NES Mapper List on romhacking.net to wiki.


EDIT: When using Gedit to open "016.txt" from the zipfile at the romhacking.net page I linked, all I got was

"Could not open the file /home/pino/.cache/.fr-E951Mw/mapper docs/016.txt.

gedit has not been able to detect the character encoding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character encoding from the menu and try again."

After I manually select each of the four character encodings on the list and click Retry, I get a message like this:

"Could not open the file /home/pino/.cache/.fr-s6USVz/mapper docs/016.txt using the Western (WINDOWS-1252) character encoding.

Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a different character encoding from the menu and try again."

Someone else has already reported this to launchpad.net as a bug as Gedit.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/75151
The upstream bug has been open since 2004.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156199

There is also an option to install other character encodings. Which do Disch's docs use? Is there a recommended way to read the docs without having to use Windows or a hex editor?

[Dwedit]

There are characters 00 (NUL), and 0B (VT) in the file. No wonder text editors don't like it. Otherwise, it's pure ASCII.

[Tosi]

Have you tried any of the other editors, like vi(m), emacs, nano, etc.?