Use latin1 for text encoding? about python-altium HOT 2 OPEN

I expect it uses something like Latin-1 or Windows-1252. I am happy to change line 996 to decode with Latin-1. However I noted under https://github.com/vadmium/python-altium/blob/master/format.md#pin that I saw the byte 0x8E representing a broken bar (U+00A6, ¦). So the full story might not be so simple.

I have come across parallel UTF-8 properties, for instance as well as one named TEXT, there is one named %UTF8%TEXT. You don’t know if your text frame object has a UTF-8 version of the text?

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Hi @vadmium

I have not found any occurrence of the "UTF" string in the file.

I think I will create a text with including the most accents, and special characters, save it and see the text to make more solid conclusion on the encoding type.

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