MD with extended characters (umlauts - German) becomes...another extended character

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Michael Schueler

July 20, 2023 01:17

Hi, I loaded some individual md records, converted from BBEdit.

The entry in BBEdit is Zu schön für mich (2007); opened in TextEdit, it is the same.

In NVUltra, it becomes Zu schšn fźr mich (2007)

I've tried changing the Font.

Can't see where to change Character Set?

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  Fletcher Penney

  July 20, 2023 04:14

  If you open a support ticket and attach the file, I can take a look.  The encoding is specified in the file, not by nvUltra.

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  Fletcher Penney

  July 20, 2023 15:33

  Your file is encoded as Western (Mac OS Roman) – this was an encoding format from the 1980's and should probably be avoided these days.  Should be encoded as UTF-8, or another encoding such as UTF-16 that embeds a BOM at the beginning of the file.

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  Michael Schueler

  July 20, 2023 16:23

  Ok, thanks.

  The file was probably originally created in the ‘80s on a Mac SE, no doubt that’s why it's set to be that encoding.

  To fix this, duplicate the file in TextEdit, when you Save there is an option to set the Encoding.

  Oddly enough, BBEdit doesn't allow this in its Free License version.

  Thanks a lot for your help. 😁

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