How to deal with Chinese garbled characters in notepad++

How to solve Chinese garbled characters in Notepad

Question:

Garbled characters appear when opening Chinese text in Notepad, how to solve it?

Solution:

To solve the Chinese garbled problem in Notepad, you can take the following steps:

1. Set the correct encoding Format

• Open Notepad.
• Click "Encoding" in the menu bar.
• Select "Convert to UTF-8".

2. Install the necessary language pack

• For Simplified Chinese, download the Chinese language pack from the following link: https://sourceforge.net /projects/npp-chinese-simp/
• Double-click the installation package to install.
• Restart Notepad.

3. Modify the character encoding settings (optional)

If the above steps cannot solve the problem, you can try to modify the character encoding settings:

• Open Notepad.
• Click "Settings" in the menu bar.
• Select "Preferences".
• Under the "New Document" tab, set the "Character Set" to "UTF-8".

4. Check the file encoding

• Make sure the original text file has been saved using UTF-8 encoding.
• You can use a text editor (such as Notepad) to check the encoding of the file.

5. Other issues

If the above steps still cannot solve the problem, please consider the following potential reasons:

• System is missing Necessary fonts.
• The text file contains corrupted characters.
• Text files are saved in an encoding different from UTF-8.
• The Notepad version is out of date.

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