[madoues]

Dan,

Go to Settings->Text File Settings and switch "Display File Encodings" if it's not currently enabled. Next, load your song, tap the center of the screen to bring up the song overlay, tap the A at the top right, then Text Display Settings, and then change the file encoding dropdown to something different. One of the encodings should work properly. MobileSheets is not able to automatically detect the encoding in your file for some reason. In order to prevent this problem, make sure that you are using the UTF-8 encoding for your text files before importing them.

Mike

The same files displayed correctly in MS at least until last June.
All my files have always been UTF-8 from at least 10 years ago.
I just checked a few of them with an online encoding detector which confirmed they are UTF-8.

I opened a file and the text encoding showed ASCII, so I switched it to UTF-8.
That seems to have fixed many if not most of the files. !!GREAT!!!

But there are still files that have a problem even though the encoding shows UTF-8.
If I edit the file, I can retype correct characters and they now display correctly.
After saving, there is a mixture of correct characters and questions marks where the characters have not been retyped.
This means changing manually the bad files works, so it depends how many files are left with the problem.

For some reason, the problem was that the default setting was at ASCII instead of UTF-8.
I don't remember touching this setting, but am not sure...
At least from now on, new files will be detected correctly.

Is there a way in MS to redetect all the files without changing anything else in the song fields and audio files associations?
In other words without deleting the song and re-importing it?

Anyway, the biggest part of the problem is now solved for me.
Worst case, I can make a note of the bad files as I see them, and correct them when I have time.
But an automated solution that solves all of them at the same time would be a godsend.

Thank you once again for your support.
Sincerely,
Dan