ICGD and Unicode

ICGD can list Unicode characters if the file is encoded as UTF-8. If you have problems seeing special characters in ICGDs, the file is using ANSI or some other non-Unicode character encoding, and you must change the encoding as described below.

These instructions are for the Notepad++ application which you can get from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/, but you can also use some other text editor that supports different character encodings.

To enable ICGD to use Unicode, do the following:

1. Check out the ICGD.

2. Open the ICGD in Notepad++.

3. Open the Encoding menu to see what the current encoding is. Do not change the selection, just close the menu.

   

4. Select the contents of the ICGD and press Ctrl+C to copy the text.

5. Select Encoding > Encode in UTF-8.

   

6. Select the contents of the ICGD and press Ctrl+P to paste the text.

7. Check in the ICGD.