Notepad++ does not detect encoding automatically when opening a file

[Ken Wu]

I have Kodi on my PC and exported the movie library to .NFO file(text file) which contains movie’s information. When I open the NFO file using Notepad++, some contents with foreign language are always showing funny characters. I have to manually choose UTF8 from Notepad++ menu to make them showing correctly. I wish the developer can fix the problem. There is no such problem If I use notepad2 to open the files.

[Claudia Frank]

@Ken-Wu

Settings->Preferences->MISC.
untick Autodetect character encoding

Settings->Preferences->New Document
check UTF-8

This should do the trick.

Cheers
Claudia

[Ken Wu]

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[Ken Wu]

@Claudia-Frank

Nope, it does not work

[N N]

I filed a bug report for this last year because I also had issues with XBMC. Go upvote it and maybe devs will finally notice it.

Does the encoding default to “OEM-US” for you too?