You most likely have the wrong encoding. Nothing in a .ini specifies
the encoding so it has to be detected (ie guessed) or the system
encoding used. You can set the encoding to open the file with in the
"more options" section of the open dialog.

Cheers
Lex
On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 12:15, Andrew Kennedy via Users
<users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>
> I tried to open a Windows .ini file, but the characters look Chinese.
>
> The file is a text file.
>
> Is there something I need to do to properly view it?
>
> Thanks,
>                Andrew Kennedy
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