The Encoding preferences panel is opened from menu
The encoding preferences are the following:
- Encoding for non XML
files - The default encoding 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, which is 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: