[v1.7.3.1] "Set a Text Value" action cannot read unicode from file correctly

[Pfeil]

When the "Set a Text Value" action is used with unicode characters directly, it works as expected:

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Set Text [~text] to '“ ’ À ¢'
Write [Blue] '{TXT:~text}' to log
Will write "“ ’ À ¢" to the log.

However, if those same characters are read from a file using this action, they are not recognized properly:

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Set Text [~text] to [C:\special characters.txt]
Write [Blue] '{TXT:~text}' to log
Will write "� � � �" to the log(ASCII code 65533).


I believe this is the underlying issue.

Notepad, which I used to create the text file, uses ANSI encoding by default.


EDIT: Noted in the documentation for v1.7.3.2

[Gary]

I guess I would need to provide a selection of encodings for the user to choose from.

[Gary]

The reader reads UTF-8 by default (which is what it is set to).  I don't know if I want to overload that section too much.  I may just update the doc to indicate that the encoding should be UTF-8 to be fully compatible.  Thanks for bringing this to my attention.