Hello Juergen,
because of its old past Embedded Wizard uses a trick to store project files. Concrete, all characters lying below 0x0100 (256 dec) are encoded as they are. Character codes >= 0x0100 are encoded in the \UXXXX notation (e.g. \U12AB). In this way it was possible to encode Unicode characters from the range 0x0000 .. 0xFFFF and edit the project files in text editors not supporting UTF-8.
Last year in version 9.30 we have enhanced the read functionality to also accept the UTF-8 format directly. If you are using Embedded Wizard 9.30 and you create the EWU file encoded in UTF-8, Embedded Wizard should be able to read the file. Important: the UTF-8 file has to start with a valid BOM otherwise Embedded Wizard will fall back in the compatibility mode and interprete the file as if it were created in the old format.
If you are using an older version of Embedded Wizard (version <= 9.20), you have to encode the files in the format as explained above. The best approach: character codes < 128 are stored as they are. Characters >= 128 should be stored in the \UXXXX notation.
Please note, even if Embedded Wizard 9.30 is able to read UTF-8 files, it stores the projects still in its old proprietary format as explained above. This was essential to guarantee the compatibility with older versions. With the next version 9.40 we will switch off the old proprietary format and store all text files consequently in UTF-8.
Does it help you further?
Best reghards
Paul Banach