# Open a document with "exotic" Letters generates ���� (if not utf8)

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/open-a-document-with-exotic-letters-generates-if-not-utf8/2601>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/open-a-document-with-exotic-letters-generates-if-not-utf8/2601 "2019-01-14T10:30:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/open-a-document-with-exotic-letters-generates-if-not-utf8/2601/1 "2019-01-14T10:30:54Z")

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When I open a document in PG with european, “not english” letters and in the head of this document it is not written “utf8”, in my whole documents are a lot of ����� for every unknown letter.

Even if I change the head in PG to utf8, the ���� stay there, because at the time of opening, PG cannot read the letters and therefore replaces the “exotic” letter with �.

Is it possible to bring PG to open a page (or maybe better, the whole site) in utf8-mode even if it isn’t marked in the head of the document? As a option: open page/site in utf8?

Or is there already an option I did not find?

Would be great!