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Can anybody tell me how to turn UTF 8 into English?

All I wanted to do was download a user's guide for my sewing machine. But it came out in this bizarre language that looks like a blend of Greek, Cuneiform, and Chinese. I have it in Notepad but I have no clue what to do with it. Does anybody anywhere know how I can turn this into something I can read?? Oh, and can you tell I don't know diddly about computers? Thanks.

Update:

This is the link: http://safemanuals.com/user-guide-instructions-own...

Yes, it was a PDF file.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    UTF-8 is the character encoding. The User's Guide is probably being viewed in a program which is not using the correct character encoding or you do not have the font that supports it.

    Was the User's Guide a PDF file? If so, you need to use Adobe's Reader for PDF files. Or, install the Reader plug-in for your browser. Opening the file in a text editor is going to give you nothing but garbage. If you have saved the file and overwritten it from NotePad, then you lost all the original formatting and will need to download the file again as it is corrupted.

    A link to the User's Guide would have been helpful or letting us know what extension the file has.

    Character Encoding:

    How do I adjust my browser to read foreign character sets?: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/sett...

    Due to the wide variety of character encoding available, you may only be able to read certain types of character encoding.

    Are you seeing garbled characters? If so, we recommend adjusting your browser's character encoding setting. Here are instructions for the most popular browsers:

    Internet Explorer 6.x

    1. Click the View menu.

    2. Select Encoding.

    3. Select the appropriate language or character set.

    FireFox 1.x and higher

    1. Click the View menu.

    2. Select Character Encoding.

    3. Select the appropriate language or character set.

    Safari 2.x

    1. Click the View menu.

    2. Select Encoding.

    3. Select the appropriate language or character set.

    You may need to restore the original character encoding setting to view other web sites properly. If you’re viewing a message with mixed encoding, unfortunately only one character encoding set may be viewed at a time.

    Ron

  • 1 decade ago

    Microsoft has problems with non-English documents.

    If you have a PDF you can keep it PDF and read it with Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is free and probably the smallest download of the solutions for you.

    PDF is a very popular format to keep the pictures and fonts pretty on anybody's computer, no matter what the ability of the computer might have. So. Adobe Reader will help you on down the road.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Make sure it is an English guide, and if you know that it is, notepad isn't interpreting the UTF-8 encoding correctly. Try downloading a program like notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ that will read UTF-8 encoded files.

  • oops
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Try opening it here: https://docs.google.com/

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