Solid Edge High bit or extended characters in propseed.txt not displayed correctly

When using extended (high bit) characters, referred to as extended ASCII characters, within the propseed.txt, these are not displayed correctly and are shown as blocks or rectangles instead of the expected character:

Explicitly converting and saving the file over to UTF-8 encoding will allow the extended characters to display as expected:

Using a text editor, we can determine that the original propseed file has been saved with ANSI encoding: