However, in the Preferences of PlainPad under the point general, an individual behavior can be set. In addition to the text encoding for new documents, you can also specify the text encoding to be used when opening and saving documents.
Note: It can happen that files contain an incorrect specification of the text encoding of their content. In this case, PlainPad manually tries to find a suitable text encoding that returns a readable result. However, it should be noted that the result may not lead to the desired result and therefore the text needs to be adjusted/corrected manually.