12.2 build 2011062910 OS X 10.6.8 I have a simple file CatalogManager.properties, as follows: #If true, a missing CatalogManager.properties file or missing #properties within that file will not generate warning messages. xml.catalog.ignoreMissing = true The lines are newline delimited. 0000000 23 49 66 20 74 72 75 65 2c 20 61 20 6d 69 73 73 0000010 69 6e 67 20 43 61 74 61 6c 6f 67 4d 61 6e 61 67 0000020 65 72 2e 70 72 6f 70 65 72 74 69 65 73 20 66 69 0000030 6c 65 20 6f 72 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 0a 23 0000040 70 72 6f 70 65 72 74 69 65 73 20 77 69 74 68 69 0000050 6e 20 74 68 61 74 20 66 69 6c 65 20 77 69 6c 6c 0000060 20 6e 6f 74 20 67 65 6e 65 72 61 74 65 20 77 61 0000070 72 6e 69 6e 67 20 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 73 2e 0a 0000080 78 6d 6c 2e 63 61 74 61 6c 6f 67 2e 69 67 6e 6f 0000090 72 65 4d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 3d 20 74 72 75 65 00000a0 0a The default Encoding in Preferences is as follows: Encoding for non XML files MacRoman UTF-8 BOM handling Keep Encoding errors handling REPORT If I set these to Encoding for non XML files UTF-8 UTF-8 BOM handling Don't write Encoding errors handling REPORT I get an encoding error on reading the file. If I ignore the encoding error, I get Kanji-style text. When I restore the defaults, it reads OK. I restarted Oxygen, and I was still seeing the problem. When I tried to do it again to get a screen grab for this message, it was OK, and I now cannot reproduce the problem. Anyone else seen this problem? Peter West "How can these things be?"