Hi George,

the user can set, Options->Preferences -- Encoding -- "Fallback character encoding"

I checked and it is set to Unicode:

the corresponding user guide topic:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topic/preferences-encoding.html

That link is no longer valid:

You may also attach that sample file to a reply

Thank you George – see attached.

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com> On Behalf Of George Bina
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 8:53 AM
To: oxygen-user@oxygenxml.com
Subject: [EXT] Re: [oXygen-user] Why is Oxygen showing my files in Chinese?

Dear Roger,

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

(UTF-8) and exposes that as an option that the user can set, see

Options->Preferences -- Encoding -- "Fallback character encoding" and

also the corresponding user guide topic:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topic/preferences-encoding.html

The first thing to do is to check what value you have for this option in

your Oxygen installation, to understand what encoding is used to read

the content of that text file. That should ideally match the encoding

you used to create the file.

You may also attach that sample file to a reply, to allow us to better

understand what content has the file what you want to open.

Best Regards,

George