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# Region Settings and Unicode UTF-8 Compatibility

If your computer's region settings are configured for **Japanese**, **Chinese**, or **Korean**, please ensure that you enable the **"Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support"** option. This is necessary to avoid character display issues in VNTranslator.

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