Thread: how to tell the character encoding???
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Old 06-16-2010, 03:47 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
Nope. I left it blank. In retrospect, it's obvious I needed to specify an encoding. Plus, I tried importing an html file with smart quotes. It kept all the smart quotes in the html, although it did convert the original file so that each byte now has an associated 00 byte.

Edit: Yes, adding the correct encoding CP1252 caused it to convert as expected.
Duh! Where do you set The encoding for a TXT file. I looked all over the TXT Input tab of preferences and the individual section on the convert. spaces, paragraphs... Yes. Encoding?
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