If a document appears garbled in Tedit on Mac

Garbled text usually appears when Tedit cannot detect the document’s text encoding correctly. To narrow down or solve the problem, try the following:

• The document may appear correctly if you open it using a different text encoding.

  See Open a document with a specified encoding.

• Adjusting the encoding priorities used for automatic detection may help reduce garbled text.

  See Customize text encoding priorities.

• If you select “Refer to encoding declaration in document” in Format settings, Tedit also refers to encoding declarations written in the document, such as “encoding=” or “@charset,” during auto-detection. If the document contains a misleading declaration, it can cause the wrong encoding to be chosen.

  See Detect a document’s text encoding.

• If the file is not plain text, such as binary data, Tedit cannot display it correctly as text. Open the file in an app that supports its file type.