Weird characters while merging text files

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Published on 2010-02-22T01:52:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 15:11 UTC
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When i open the text file in windows the text looks fine. But when i use text miler merger software then it shows some weird chinese characters for that files.

but i reads ok the files after.

how can i make all the files to same encoding so that they appear readable

thanks

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