# Cyrillic symbols in comments

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cyrillic-symbols-in-comments/49693>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** comment\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cyrillic-symbols-in-comments/49693 "2020-11-06T17:42:26Z")\
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> [@gvbelov](#):
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> It does not depend on the editor, I have used several Notepad++, TED Notepad,… For example, file with such comments works

Any decent editor will preserve the encoding of the file by default, so simply opening it and re-saving in another editor will not fix the encoding. You’ll have to change an editor setting somewhere to specify conversion to UTF-8. How to do this will vary with the editor.

For example, for [Notepad++ see here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7256049/how-do-i-convert-an-ansi-encoded-file-to-utf-8-with-notepad). For TED Notepad there is an [encoding option in the File menu](http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/manual/wiki/index.php/File_menu#Encoding). And so forth.

PS. I would strongly recommend using a modern programming editor like [vsCode](https://www.julia-vscode.org/). (To change the encoding to UTF-8 in vsCode, there is a [menu at the bottom of the file window](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30082741/change-the-encoding-of-a-file-in-visual-studio-code#:~:text=In%20the%20bottom%20bar%20of,Click%20Save%20with%20encoding%20.).)

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