http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18191
--- Comment #10 from Alexander Scott-Johns alexander.scott.johns+winebug@googlemail.com 2009-07-02 09:44:44 --- Patches which implement opening and saving in Unicode were sent and have been committed:
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=42729bc1c1cc513a82cae4f793... http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=8b6b7b2c39d77f7cd29657ecc3... http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=080cc909929dc4eb64711120b6... http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=67766392bf735c6c9007213bd1... http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=84fd1c84f8f2393290438f452a...
Files saved in UTF-8 by Wine Notepad have a byte-order mark. Unix apps may not expect this.
Files saved in UTF-8 by Unix apps will not have a byte-order mark. To open these in Wine Notepad, you need to change the encoding.