You can work with characters from any language in your data files. MapInfo Pro can open tables, files, or workspaces with Unicode characters in the file name or path name regardless of the locale of MapInfo Pro or which localized version of MapInfo Pro you are running. A system setting called Encode Workspaces and Tab Files enables this feature, which is off by default. For more details, see Using Data Files in Any Language or Character Set.
To support content from multiple languages, MapInfo Extended tables (*.tab) and Interchange files (*.mif, *.mid) can be written with UTF-8 and UTF-16 character sets, and Workspaces are created in the UTF-8 character set. You cannot use these tables with versions of MapInfo Pro that are older than version 15.2. MapInfo Pro also opens tables from other supported sources that are Unicode, such as, Shape (*.shp), Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, PostGIS, Comma Separated Value (*.csv), and Text (*.txt) files.
A system setting called Charset lets you specify the character set, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16, you want to write files to. The default setting is UTF-8.
To enable the Encode Workspaces and Tab Files feature and set UTF support: