Title: [Plugin repository] readme.txt character encoding
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin repository] readme.txt character encoding

 *  [wpseek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphawolf/)
 * (@alphawolf)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-repository-readmetxt-encoding/)
 * Hey there,
 * I just stumbled upon a thing that made me wonder. Does a readme.txt enclosed 
   to a plugin “package” need a certain character encoding?
 * Thing is, when I edit a readme.txt with Windows’ WordPad (with ANSI, I guess)
   and upload it via SVN, it obviously cant be parsed and so cant be displayed on
   the WP.org plugin page. When I edit the readme.txt with my IDE and save the file(
   with UTF-8) it will be correctly parsed by the plugin repository.
 * How comes?
 * Oliver

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 * [readme.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/readme-txt/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-repository-readmetxt-encoding/)
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