Learn how file encoding detection works for TXT files, what BOMs and byte patterns can tell you, and when to manually try GB18030, Big5, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, or UTF-16 before converting to UTF-8.
Garbled Chinese text usually means a TXT file was opened with the wrong encoding. Learn how to identify mojibake, test GBK, GB18030, Big5, and UTF-8, and convert the file before importing it into WristTale.