diff --git a/trunk/Editor/SyntaxRichTextBox.cs b/trunk/Editor/SyntaxRichTextBox.cs
index 2a1866a..d0992be 100644
--- a/trunk/Editor/SyntaxRichTextBox.cs
+++ b/trunk/Editor/SyntaxRichTextBox.cs
@@ -2223,7 +2223,7 @@ namespace LSLEditor
 			{
 				if (File.Exists(path))
 				{
-					StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path, Encoding.Default);
+					StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path, Encoding.UTF8);
 					this.Text = sr.ReadToEnd();
 					sr.Close();
 				}
diff --git a/trunk/LSLEditor.RES b/trunk/LSLEditor.RES
index 901553b..60b6f4f 100644
Binary files a/trunk/LSLEditor.RES and b/trunk/LSLEditor.RES differ
diff --git a/trunk/Resource/ReleaseNotes.htm b/trunk/Resource/ReleaseNotes.htm
index 8d268e5..d9a9805 100644
--- a/trunk/Resource/ReleaseNotes.htm
+++ b/trunk/Resource/ReleaseNotes.htm
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
 					<li>llSetLinkCamera</li>
 					<li>llSetRegionPos</li>
 				</ul>
+				- Changed:
+				<ul>
+					<li>Opening files now assumes UTF-8 instead of ANSI format. At some point I'd like to make it auto-detecting for all supported formats.</li>
+				</ul>
 			</div>
 			<div>
 				<h3><span class="date">2012-01-01</span> - Release 2.44.0</h3>