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I wrote my text using UTF-8 encoding, however, TeXstudio somehow changed this and I cannot find the way to return my text in readable form. Is it possible at all or should I die now?

Speravir
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Pavasaris
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    before experimenting on anything make sure you have a file.tex.backup made from original file. I suppose texstudio would detect your encoding and suggests a right encoding to view properly, incase it's different from the default one in editor. Don't save the file in wrong encoding, since editors does not change encoding, stick to UTF-8 always on all editors and preferably use one editors on all machines/OS. – texenthusiast Jan 15 '14 at 22:11

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First select in the menu:

Edit->Setup Encoding...

This will open a dialog. There you select UTF8 and click View With.

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For the future you can put the following lines at the top of your latex documents, of course you can adjust them as you need.

% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !TEX spellcheck = de_DE

TeXstudio will then know, what encoding the file is.

quinmars
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In the bottom bar, there is a menu on the right side, where you can change the encoding (a bit left of the bookmark symbols).

Also, with the help of iconv (Linux) or CsCvt (Windows), you can also convert encodings of files.

Alex R.
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