Select to use characters from any language, so 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.
Disable this option to share MapInfo tables with version of MapInfo Pro that are older than version 15.2, to share data with applications that do not support the UTF-8 character set, or when you use data from only one language. Workspaces and tables are written with the current system character setting (charset).
When enabled, this option writes workspaces using the UTF-8 charset. New Tab files or Tab files being re-written, such as save copy as, pack table, update friendly name, or update metadata, use the UTF-8 encoding. The !charset in the .tab file remains the same – it represents the data in the table and not the charset of the .tab file itself. MapInfo Pro writes a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file, so that other applications recognize the encoding.
When Encode Workspaces and Tab Files is enabled and you are opening an Excel or Access file for import into MapInfo native TAB format, the resulting tables (TAB files) are in UTF-8 format. When opening an instance of an Excel, ASCII, CSV, or Lotus 1-2-3 data type and Create Copy in MapInfo Format is checked on the Open Table dialog, the resulting table is in MapInfo Extended format with a default character set (charset) preference set to NativeX (MapInfo Extended). When reading from or writing to a .QRY file, the file opens using the UTF-8 character set.
Click OK to close the dialog and save your settings.