@Paul-Klaes So, does the solution I provided solve your problem?

@Sylvester-Bullitt said: When is the next update As said in this post from June 26th, it is hoped to be a week from then – that is, July 3rd (still today, my time) would have been exactly 1 week… but it said “about”, because Notepad++ is just a side-gig volunteer thing that Don has done for the past few decades, and he does have a life (and job) outside of Notepad++. Given that he’s been merging a lot of PRs in the past few days, I am guessing it’s soon – probably this weekend – but cannot guarantee that. The 8.9.6.4 bug that disabled loading files from HTML hyperlinks is killing my productivity. I suggested two weeks ago that, if it really important to you, you could re-install an older version to use in the interim, which would have fixed your productivity two weeks ago. I’m sorry if you didn’t notice that part of my post.

@Claudia-Svenson said: @Coises You want a sample. Ok here it is. Download the following simplified text file with UTF-8 BOM encoding I zipped it to prevent conversion by webserver. https://mega.nz/file/RMQlzCTD#LhDRpJSoWAL4Vi6EP8-XlUyDeHpfp1-_aRFLlCMzICk The first two lines contain english sentence with german Umlaute The last two lines russian/cyrillic text If I switch encoding to ANSI I can see the Umlaute but the russian text is scrambled. How can I convert only a part (e.g.first two lines from ANSI to UTF-8 BOM)? Select the lines or characters that are incorrectly encoded (ANSI characters in a UTF-8-BOM file). Switch to ANSI. (Encoding|ANSI). Copy the highlighted characters (which should now appear correctly) to the clipboard. Switch to UTF-8-BOM. (Encoding|UTF-8-BOM). Paste. You can now save the corrected file as UTF-8-BOM. With your example file, the highlighted section persists perfectly when changing encoding. I wouldn’t trust that to be the case always: watch what is happening to be sure the right section is highlighted both when copying and when pasting. (Earlier in this thread I said you usually shouldn’t use the top section of the Encoding menu except in the two particular cases that I listed. This is one the rare other cases where you need to use the top section.)