BUG when convert GB2312 to UTF-8. May corrupted files permanently

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Better Handle md files not stored in UTF8 format

My accents display correctly in the original md files but they do not display correctly in Obsidian. Worse, one edit within Obsidian and it overwrites my original file, stripping all characters and replacing them with the single � character. Of course this damage is irreparable, since all different characters are replaced with the same single character making a search and replace impossible. This french md file renders correctly in Notepad and Textpad. [20210223_131608] In Obsidian it looks …