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Set MATLAB's default character set to UTF-16 accidentally, now it seems broken

I did this in MATLAB

feature('DefaultCharacterSet','UTF-16');

I was trying to see if that would allow me to display an overscore ‾ in some text, which always displayed as a ?.

So now everything errors. I do feel a little dumb, but there should have a warning or a confirmation dialog. I can reinstall, if that is my only option, but do I have any another options?

Solution

  • Restart.

    It seems to be a temporary setting, what threw errors then, is fine now.

    Also never run this:

    feature('DefaultCharacterSet','UTF-16');

    This will not work if you do run the above :

    feature('DefaultCharacterSet','UTF-8');