The Encoding preferences panel is opened from menu
The encoding preferences are the following:
- Encoding for non XML files -
The default encoding to be used when the application opens non XML documents. This is
necessary because non XML files have a large variety of formats and there is no standard
mechanism for declaring the encoding that should be used for opening and saving the file. In
case of XML files the encoding is declared at the beginning of the file in a special
declaration element or it is assumed to be the default value UTF-8.
- Encoding errors handling -
This option defines how to handle characters that cannot be represented in the specified
encoding of the document when the document is opened. The available options are: