Text encoding


Preferences

By default PlainPad uses for new documents the text encoding "UTF-8", which generally offers the highest compatibility. For existing documents, the existing text encoding of the document is used for opening, if possible.

However, in the Preferences of PlainPad under the point general, an individual behavior can be set. In addition to the text encoding for new documents, you can also specify the text encoding to be used when opening and saving documents.

Manual setting of the text encoding for a single document

The text encoding can be set individually via the footer of the respective document. The newly set encoding is then used when saving the document.

Note: It can happen that files contain an incorrect specification of the text encoding of their content. In this case, PlainPad manually tries to find a suitable text encoding that returns a readable result. However, it should be noted that the result may not lead to the desired result and therefore the text needs to be adjusted/corrected manually.