There are no Unicode encodings available in version 0.24.3 on Ubuntu 18.04.3. On https://userbase.kde.org/Okteta it says: Character encodings: All 8-bit encodings as supplied by Qt, EBCDIC The referenced site https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/QTextCodec.html#details lists UTF-8 (and others), which I don't have in the list of available encodings. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install okteta on Ubuntu 18.04.3 2. Open a TXT-file with okteta encoded in UTF-8 OBSERVED RESULT You can't set the encoding to UTF-8 because it is not there. Special chars like German Umlauts are not displayed properly. EXPECTED RESULT UTF-8 is available as a text endocing. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Frameworks 5.44.0 KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: 5.9.5
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170925 ***