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I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files.

That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text.

The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.



I'm editing a UTF16-LE file right now. Works just fine. It does show the BOM at the beginning, though.




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