Changing default encoding of MATLAB

Recently I changed version of matlab from 2020b to 2023b. I cannot change default encoding from UTF-8 to Windows-1252. All of language system settings are correct.

I tried using feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'windows-1252') but it doesn't work.

Different encoding results in displaying imported data incorrectly. I've imported data from Oracle database. In previous version of matlab with default encoding windows-1252 there was no such problem.

[Dyuman Joshi]

As you are importing data, try this alternative -

% read in the file
fID = fopen(filename, 'r', 'n', 'windows-1252');
data = fread(fID);
fclose(fID);

[Dominika Mietek]

I don't import data from the file.

I need to change default encoding.

Answer 1

[Bruno Luong]

I see someone succeed in older MATLAB by editing the file

[matlabroot '\bin\lcdata.xml']

Ref in this thread https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/340903-unicode-characters-in-m-file?s_tid=srchtitle

[Dominika Mietek]

I've added to the file and it works fine:

<codeset>

<encoding name="windows-1252">

<encoding_alias name="UTF-8" />

</encoding>