# XTF2\_UTF8

_Added November 2013_

You may display and edit non-Latin1 characters (Cyrillic, Greek, Korean, etc.) in XTREE by specifying the XTF2\_UTF8 flag and then using the UTF8 encoding for special characters in the data array, file, and/or ansary. If you don't specify the XTF2\_UTF8 flag, XTREE will assume that any characters > chr(128) are Latin1-encoded (as it has in the past).

Note: the column widths specified in the _coldef_ parameter remain in units of 8-bit bytes, so if you expect a column to contain UTF8-multi-byte-encoded characters, make sure to expand the column width accordingly.

See the sample program [XUTF8A in EXLIB:\[908,21\]](https://bitbucket.org/microsabio/exlib/src/master/908021/xutf8a.bp).

**History**

2013 October, A-Shell 1365:  Flag added to A-Shell