On Sunday February 26 2023 14:23, you wrote to me:
MvV>> But if I reply with Winv as external editor in Golded I can see MvV>> two characters that look like Chinese to me.
CJ> It says Tang-Dynasty. There was a chinese restaurant here with that CJ> name.
Aha!
CJ> If I reply from multimail I get notepad kladblok as external editor CJ> and that displays it correct.
Notepad handles UTF-8 quit well but the last time I tried it as external editor for Golded it insisted on adding a BOM to the message text. That was many years ago so maybe newer versions of notepad do not do that anymore. Adding or using a BOM in UTF-8 text is considered obsolete practise.