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babablablabla
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Accents in plain txt files incorrectly displayed

I saved some accented and umlauted characters in a plain txt file using mac with UTF-8 encoding under a dropbox folder, and when opening it using dropbox in a browser or on an ios dropbox app, the ac...
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Walter
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6 years ago

Thanks for your effort and cooperation so far Jamie. 

At this point, may I reach out to the email address that's linked to your profile here on our Community so I can have a look into this with all of my tools at our disposal?

If need be, I'll also escalate it to an expert from our team to investigate further. 

On a closing note, I was just about to ask your name but you beat me to it; I guess we're in sync, Jamie -- no pun intended :grin:

Looking forward to your reply! 

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DiversityStudio
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Hi,

Yes please reach out to my email address, look forward to any enlightment on this!

Thank you.

Jamie

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    Walter
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    6 years ago

    I just sent you a brief message to look into this Jamie.

    Whenever you get the chance, please take a look at your inbox and we'll take it from there.

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    billyjoker
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    It was the same for me, and i could solve it by changing the codification type with Notepad++, choosing "Code with UTF-8" makes the trick.

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