How to convert a textfile and really show german umlaute?

[Ben S.]

I have a textfile which contains mostly text. Among the characters are some german Umlaute (äöü).

When I inspect these umlaute characters in hexadecimal they are represented for example by

xF6 = “ö”

or

xFC = “ü”

When I load now this file into NP++ these umlaute chars are NOT shown correctly. Instead some exotic chars are shown.

NP++ seems to interpret the content (as shown in the lower right corner of the status bar) as encoded “Windows (CR LF) ISO8859-5”

I tried a lot of NP++ converts from “Encoding” menu to let NP++ show the correct umlaute but without success.

How can I tell NP++ to convert/show umlaute correctly?

As an additional hint: The file contains some two-byte control chars xDE xE1

Maybe this has a negative impact on the correct identification.

Ben

[Claudia Frank]

@Ben-S.

How can I tell NP++ to convert/show umlaute correctly?

What if you select Encoding->Character Set->Western European->Windows-1252?

As an additional hint: The file contains some two-byte control chars xDE xE1
Maybe this has a negative impact on the correct identification.

Could be, hard to tell without having the file. Can you make a copy of that file and delete these
control chars, save it and reopen it? Does this solve the issue?

Cheers
Claudia

[Ben S.]

It works.
Thank you