Closed as UTF-8, reopened as ANSI

[seanconnor]

Dear all,

I have a very strange problem that is driving me crazy, so I hope anyone with a brain bigger than mine (an easy feat, mind you) will help me out.

I have a set of HTML documents that, when I open then, are encoded as "ANSI". I change the encoding to UTF-8 but when I close the document and open it again is still ANSI.

So the question is: Is there any way to:

a) Open all documents as UTF-8, so when I close them they stay that way.

b) Save the documents as UTF-8, and they stay saved that way.

By the way, I did tried the "save as..." and seleted UTF-8, but for some reason they keep opening themselves as ANSI.

Thanks in advance for any help provided, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Sean.

[Chris]

Hi Sean,

If your files only contain English characters, ANSI text and UTF8 text is identical so BC will detect it as ANSI. BC will detect the files as UTF-8 if they contain non-English characters or if there is a Byte Order Mark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark).

You can force your file format to use a specific character encoding. Select "Tools > File Formats". Select the HTML format. Go to the Conversion tab. Change the encoding from "Detect" to the encoding you want to force it to.