Could you share the file? What OS are you using?

If the file is generated by Windows, it might be UTF-16 with BOM. Lite XL only supports UTF-8.

sorry just got back.
i just check the file it looks like utf16, the first line is this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>

i really not very understand how the technical code works, but why not just edit it as regular text?

thanks for the great app.

sorry just got back. i just check the file it looks like utf16, the first line is this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>

i really not very understand how the technical code works, but why not just edit it as regular text?

thanks for the great app.

UTF-8 uses 1-4 bytes to represent text, while UTF-16 uses 2 bytes to represent text. The way they store text are fundamentally different, and we chose to only support UTF-8 for simplicity.