Unreal Engine 4.9.2 - Mac 10.10.4
My Actions:
Unreal Editor → Content Browser → Add New → New C++ Class → Choose Parent Class = None → Name = MyClass
The files generated are encoded in UTF 16 (LE) which XCode and Unreal cannot compile. I cannot find a setting anywhere to change the default encoding of new C++ class files.
For anyone else landing here, this happens for me by having a non-ASCII symbol (e.g: ©) in my Project Settings’ Copyright Notice field …
Fellow fancy coders be warned, stray not from (C)
I have this happen to me too on macOS using Xcode. I use the copyright symbol (©) in my Copyright Notice text in Project Settings.
The issue can be fixed by opening the affected files in a text editor (like TextWrangler) and resaving the file in UTF-8 encoding. Then everything works perfectly, even with the copyright (©) symbol.
Boy, the struggles I had trying to reset files thinking my LFS did something stupid only to find out my files had BOM and UTF-16LE due to a copyright symbol placed randomly in the copyright notice text…
I hope you live well, happy and healthy.