Open the regular textedit, paste into there, save, open the saved file in TexStudio
Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of American Citizen Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 7:40 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] Ascii versus UTF-8 woes Hi: I have a set of tex files which are in pure ascii format. Unfortunately when I copy material from the internet (Mozilla Firefox browser) it is in UTF-8 format, not ascii. This appears to be standard behavior for the internet browsers. When I paste the material into the tex document (using TexStudio) the paste goes okay. It only blows up when I try to save the newer file. The UTF-8 characters cannot be saved in ascii format and for some bizarre reason Tex Studio wont' change the encoding to UTF-8 even though I have the option set that the editor is working with UTF-8 character set. iconv won't work either, I do the "iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 input_file -o output_file and the file remains ascii. Does anyone have an idea of how I can get TexStudio to wake up and change the file encoding on the current ascii file to UTF-8? I cannot get iconv to change the ascii file to UTF-8, so I am stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. Randall
