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Biggles,

I cannot tell you exactly what encoding the Dropbox App uses when it creates a text file.

However, I have some related information which maybe will help...

I use Notedpad on a Windows PC to make text files, and store them in Dropbox.

Notepad defaults to ANSI encoding. 

Sometimes files I make are not editable in Dropbox App. They display in a different, psuedo fixed-width courier font (it is NOT truly fixed width), and there is no edit icon to invoke the Dropbox App editor. I think this has to do with specific characters I use in my files, but I am no ASCII maven.

The workarounds:

1. When saving the file on Notepad, select UTF-8 encoding. The file will be editable. You can also open a previously uneditable file in Notepad, save it with UTF-8 encoding, and it will be editable.

2. Using only the Dropbox App:

   open the file. tap and hold a word to select it.

   Select All.

   Copy.

   Create a new file (plus sign icon bottom of screen)

   choose Create or Upload File,  choose Text File

   window opens, tap in it, then Paste (contents of your uneditable file)

   tap Next (upper right)

   tap and enter a File Name that is not your original one (whatever new.txt)

   tap Create to actually make the file - it will be editable

   optionally Delete the original file / Rename the new file 

Hope that helps somehow.