Can DT auto convert UTF encoding of iOS created UTF-16LE html files?

DEVONthink
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Hi,

I cannot understand why (some iOS/iCloud/Shortcuts update), since 2024 April 4 DEVONSave v3 shortcut is creating html files in UTF-16LE.
These render fine on DTTG but they are not rendered properly on DT.

Is there a way from within DT to script re-open the files as UTF-16LE and save them back as default encoding?

(reason why I use DEVONSave v3 over the extension/bookmarklet: it really saves the text as displayed on screen, including Safari Translated articles)

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Are the files rendered as expected in Safari on the Mac? If that’s the case, then exporting and reimporting them might help.

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Thanks for the suggestion

While the exported files do render fine in Safari, the re imported files do not render at all (not even text) in DT :cry:

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Archive.zip (12.0 KB)
These are two such files

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The HTML code actually claims that the encoding is UTF-8 but it isn’t. Did DEVONthink To Go create or just import/receive these HTML files?

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Thanks. I will check the whole chain.

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The next release will improve the compatibility to such files.

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Thanks.

It’s a weird file.

if I understand, the encoding of the file is UTF-16LE and DT does not detect it as html because it cannot parse even the “<html>”

I have so far not found where in the Shortcut UTF-16LE is set

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At least the first one is just borken, as it contains two html elements. Invalid HTML, regardless of the encoding.