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

For Mac OS users, Jendker's solution really helps!!! Thanks a lot first.

Recap here.

1. Check the default language in Matlab by typing in the command window getenv('LANG'). Mine returned en_US.ISO8859-1.

2. In the Application directory find Matlab, show its package contents. Go to bin, open lcdata.xml as an administrator, locate the corresponding xpg_name, in my case en_US.ISO8859-1. Change encoding in the same line to UTF-8. Save it.

3. Restart Matlab, and it's all done!