Data is often stored as plain text file. That’s good because it is a simple format. However, simplicity comes with a cost: Not all questions may have definite answers. The most common hassle when reading/importing text files is that the encoding scheme is unknown, aka wrong. This problem mostly occurs when, say, a Mac user stores a text file, where per default UTF8 text encoding is applied. In contrast, on a Windows machine, Windows-encoding (often dubbed “latin1”,“Windows 1252” or “ISO-8859-1”) is the …