Unicode characters in MATLAB source files

Question

I\'d like to use Unicode characters in comments in a MATLAB source file. This seems to work when I write the text; however, if I close the file and reload it, \"unusual\" ch

Answer 1

The solution provided here worked for me on Windows with R2018a.

In case link doesn't work: the idea is to use file matlabroot/bin/lcdata.xml to configure an alias for encoding name (some explanation can be found in this very file in the comments):

You would use your own value instead of windows-1252, currently used encoding can be obtained by running feature('locale').

Although, if you use Unicode characters in help comments, the help browser does not recognize them, as well as console window output.