Dreamweaver 21 - Westen European not UTF8 when opening files??

@LeeBow , since we moved to version 21.6 (build 15711), or maybe the one just before, I’m not entirely sure, we’ve noticed that the UTF-8 encoding is no longer always preserved.

It seems to happen mostly when copying and pasting code from another editor. This didn’t occur before, and our workflow hasn’t changed.

So far, the only workaround we’ve found is to close the file, reopen it in Notepad++, and manually re-encode it to UTF-8, since it often reverts to ANSI.

Hi Nancy,

I can confirm it is 100% dreamweaver.

using notepad++ - I am able to open the files, and see the emoji characters.

Dreamweaver does not seem to be able to save/update the document encoding.

The only way to "fix" the issue is setting the BOM with Notepad++

Ideally - Dreamweaver would just open docs now with utf8 - it would support all characters anyway then.

For troubleshooting purposes, try using Visual Studio Code or Sublime text. 

If it continues to be a problem, the issue isn't with Dreamweaver.

The likely culprit are the Emojis and how they're expressed in Unicode.

This still is not fixed! 

Dreamweaver does not remember the Document encoding

Read this:

https://thekevinscott.com/emojis-in-javascript/