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+ <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
+      type="topic" style="task"
+      id="gedit-open-files">
+
+  <info>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#gedit-working-with-files" group="last"/>
+    <link type="seealso" xref="gedit-open-files"/>
+    <desc>When text and characters do not look as expected.</desc>
+    <revision pkgversion="3.38" date="2020-11-16" status="draft"/>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
+      <year>2020</year>
+    </credit>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">shaunm@gnome.org</email>
+      <year>2009</year>
+    </credit>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+    </license>    
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Dealing with character encoding problems</title>
+
+  <section id="basics">
+    <title>Character encodings</title>
+    <p>A character encoding is a specific way of recording characters internally
+    in a computer. There are many character encodings.</p>
+    <p>By default, <app>gedit</app> uses UTF-8, a modern character encoding
+    that can handle text from most of the world's languages. Another common
+    encoding for English and some other Western languages is ISO-8859-1.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="problems">
+  <title>Problems</title>
+  <p>If you open a file in a different character encoding than the encoding
+  in which the file was written, then some or all characters might be displayed
+  incorrectly.</p>
+ 
+  <p>This can happen if the file was created on another operating system
+  or if the file uses a different script.</p>
+  </section>
+  
+  <section id="solutions">
+  <title>Solutions</title>
+
+  <p>If the content of a text file does not look as expected,
+  <link xref="gedit-open-files">open the file</link> again by choosing a different
+  <gui>Character Encoding</gui> at the bottom of the file chooser dialog.</p>
+
+  <p>If you have an idea which language is used in the document or in the area
+  of the original author of the document:</p>
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Add or remove…</gui> from the <gui>Character Encoding</gui> dropdown at the bottom of the file chooser dialog.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>Select one or more languages and their encodings under <gui>Available Encodings</gui> on the left.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>Press <gui style="button">+</gui> to add the selected encodings to the <gui>Character Encoding</gui> dropdown.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>Close the dialog by pressing <gui style="button">Apply</gui>.</p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+  <note style="tip"><p>If none of these solutions solve the problem, then you
+  could try to edit the file anyway. It is recommended to first create a backup
+  copy of your file.</p></note>
+  
+  </section>
+</page>
diff --git a/help/meson.build b/help/meson.build
index f298186c7..d7ff4aa7a 100644
--- a/help/meson.build
+++ b/help/meson.build
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ gedit_help_sources = [
   'gedit-close-file.page',
   'gedit-create-new-file.page',
   'gedit-edit-as-root.page',
+  'gedit-character-encodings.page',
   'gedit-files-basic.page',
   'gedit-full-screen.page',
   'gedit-open-files-from-sidepane.page',