SOLVED - [11.02RC4] German Umlauts (ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü) and special character 'ß'

[tuska]

The following post is an extract from that post:
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[11.02RC4] Colour assignment only works partially

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German Umlauts (ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü) and special character: ß

Custom Column Views
Blanks are displayed instead of umlauts and special character:

U+0020
Westeuropäisch (Windows): 0x20
SPACE
Unicode Script: Zyyy (Common)
Unicode General Category: Zs (Space Separator)

The German umlauts have been removed from saved search titles, e.g.
>Ge ndert-innerhalb-der-letzten-10-Minuten
>Pfadl nge_gr er-259-Zeichen
>Verschl sselt_encrypted

For the custom column views I have started to insert the missing umlauts MANUALLY(!).
Furthermore, it is necessary to MANUALLY clean up the templates under "Change Attributes..." with regard to umlauts.

[tuska]

In the file wincmd.ini I had added comments over the years with a ';' semicolon at the beginning of the line.
In these comments, the German umlauts are also no longer present in TC 11.02RC4.
Instead, there are only blank spaces.

Remark:
I had saved the wincmd.ini file in UTF-8 format for years (and had no problems with it!)
and only changed it to the ANSI format after various errors became known.

I would certainly have noticed the lack of German umlauts in the comments at some point in earlier years...
I have checked that!

For this reason, I am filing this incident as an addition to the present post.

[ghisler(Author)]

You damaged the file when saving it - notepad probably saved it as UTF-8, which isn't supported in ini files.
When editing an ini file, make sure to always save it as ANSI or UTF-16.

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[tuska]

I have now noticed the following:
My wincmd.ini from 7.10.2023 (backup) had coding "ANSI".

These files also had the coding "ANSI" at that time:
wincmd_Rename.ini
wincmd_Searches.ini
wincmd_Searches_Templates.ini

It is inexplicable to me how the file "wincmd.ini" was recoded to "UTF-8".
With the other three files, I can no longer determine the encoding at the time of the bug report,
because I have encoded all .ini files to "ANSI".

However, this caused the errors with the German umlauts, file attributes and missing plugins.

Conclusion:
After using the backup file "wincmd.ini" from 7.10.2023 everything works fine again.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience.
This is SOLVED.

[ghisler(Author)]

No problem, glad to hear that you had a backup!