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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi George,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">the user can set, Options->Preferences -- Encoding -- "Fallback character encoding"<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I checked and it is set to Unicode:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><img width="985" height="720" style="width:10.2552in;height:7.5in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D756C4.D2076E00"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the corresponding user guide topic:<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topic/preferences-encoding.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topic/preferences-encoding.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That link is no longer valid:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><img border="0" width="1083" height="390" style="width:11.276in;height:4.0625in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.png@01D756C5.2D96E9D0"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">You may also attach that sample file to a reply<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thank you George – see attached.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">/Roger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com> On Behalf Of George Bina<br>
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 8:53 AM<br>
To: oxygen-user@oxygenxml.com<br>
Subject: [EXT] Re: [oXygen-user] Why is Oxygen showing my files in Chinese?</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear Roger,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When you open a file in Oxygen the bytes representing that file content will be translated to characters using a character encoding. For XML files there is a detection process described by the XML spec. For other type of files the rule
is to always use UTF-8. For generic text files there is no encoding information available, so Oxygen provides a default<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">(UTF-8) and exposes that as an option that the user can set, see
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Options->Preferences -- Encoding -- "Fallback character encoding" and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">also the corresponding user guide topic:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topic/preferences-encoding.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topic/preferences-encoding.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The first thing to do is to check what value you have for this option in
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">your Oxygen installation, to understand what encoding is used to read
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the content of that text file. That should ideally match the encoding
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">you used to create the file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">You may also attach that sample file to a reply, to allow us to better
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">understand what content has the file what you want to open.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">George<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">George Cristian Bina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.oxygenxml.com"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.oxygenxml.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On 6/1/21 3:11 PM, Roger L Costello wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I created a Hello, world text file using Notepad.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Then I dragged and dropped the file into Oxygen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Oxygen displays the text in Chinese (I think). See screenshot below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> How do I fix this? /Roger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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