[Geany-Users] extended characters

[Ray Andrews]

> Changing the global default does not change the encoding for files
> already open, thats why you had to change it for the file as well.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
But the global default has never been touched by me.  When I checked it 
was utf-8 and I've never even looked at that setting before let alone 
change it.  Dunno, maybe somehow I was doing something else wrong.