When fixing a file the encoding is maybe not respected and the fixed code is written with default system encoding. This leads in losing special chars etc. E.g. the original file is a UTF-8 file, with ...

I'm not entirely sure where the root cause of this issue lies, but I'm marking it as VSCode issue for the time being, as it only seems to happen when I'm using VSCode. Occasionally, the text encoding ...

XML files have a header describing what encoding they are in. If this is correct, you're done. However, ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 so you can safely assume everything is UTF-8 and parse it.