UTF8 is a name for a multi-byte character encoding method, widely used for Chinese, Japanese etc. WordSmith cannot handle UTF8, but you can convert UTF8 to Unicode first using Text Converter.  This is a format which was devised for many languages some years ago when disk space was limited and character encoding was problematic. That's because it uses a variable number of bytes to represent the different characters. A to Z will be only 1 byte but for example Japanese characters may well need 2, 3 or even more bytes to represent one character. Quite a messy kludge.

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