Dear Roger,
Sorry, I tried to format the URL and accidentally deleted a character
from it, the correct link is:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/23.1/ug-editor/topics/preferences-encoding.html
Unicode encoding is UTF-16 and it expects 2 bytes for each character
while Notepad saved the document using UTF-8 or an encoding that encoded
each character from "Hello world" as one byte. So, if you use Unicode
UTF-16 when reading the file then each pair of two bytes will be decoded
as one character and the codes for "Hello world" will result in those
unexpected characters - you can also note that there are 6 strange
characters instead of 12 as you would expect, this is exactly because
URF-16 is using 2 bytes for each character.
Please change that setting (Options->Preferences -- Encoding -- Fallback
character encoding) to the default value UTF-8 and you should be able to
open the file as expected.
Best Regards,
George
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On 6/1/21 4:04 PM, Roger L Costello wrote:
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
<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That link is no longer valid: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
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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
<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
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com <http://www.oxygenxml.com>
On 6/1/21 3:11 PM, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I created a Hello, world text file using Notepad.
>
> Then I dragged and dropped the file into Oxygen.
>
> Oxygen displays the text in Chinese (I think). See screenshot below.
>
> How do I fix this? /Roger
>
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