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Why does the Kind column show the Chinese characters 文件 for Markdown files?

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Finder shows the Chinese characters 文件 next the md text in the Kind column for Markdown files: enter image description here Same is shown in the inspector: enter image description here Through Google Translate I found that the characters 文件 mean file in Chinese. Why is Finder showing the word file in md file in Chinese? How can I revert it to English? [Here](http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=19058987172706378188) I've uploaded a sample file that shows this behaviour on my machine. I'm on macOS 10.15.3, the preferred system language is English (UK). No other files show any Chinese characters. ## What I've tried Per [suggestion of bjbk](https://apple.stackexchange.com/revisions/384375/2) I've set the Open with to Visual Studio Code and restarted. This did not change the Kind column contents. Per [suggestion of WGroleau](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/384328/why-does-the-kind-column-show-the-chinese-characters-%e6%96%87%e4%bb%b6-for-markdown-files?noredirect=1#comment523626_384328) I checked if file README.md returned the same Chinese characters. It does not, it simply returns:
README.md: UTF-8 Unicode text
I've tried using the [mdls](https://ss64.com/osx/mdls.html) command on the file, it shows that the content type is com.unknown.md. Maybe that's can help pinpoint the issue? Full mdls output below:
_kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions      = "README.md"
kMDItemContentCreationDate             = 2020-01-20 21:18:03 +0000
kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking     = 2020-01-20 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate         = 2020-03-14 17:21:13 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentType                     = "com.unknown.md"
kMDItemContentTypeTree                 = (
    "com.unknown.md",
    "public.text",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content",
    "public.plain-text"
)
kMDItemDateAdded                       = 2020-03-14 17:18:56 +0000
kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking               = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName                     = "README.md"
kMDItemDocumentIdentifier              = 0
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate             = 2020-03-14 17:21:13 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate                  = 2020-01-20 21:18:03 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode                   = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags                   = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon                 = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible                     = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden             = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery                  = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel                         = 0
kMDItemFSName                          = "README.md"
kMDItemFSNodeCount                     = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID                  = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID                   = 502
kMDItemFSSize                          = 97
kMDItemFSTypeCode                      = ""
kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking         = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemKind                            = "md"
kMDItemLastUsedDate                    = 2020-03-14 17:21:05 +0000
kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking            = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemLogicalSize                     = 97
kMDItemPhysicalSize                    = 4096
kMDItemUseCount                        = 21
kMDItemUsedDates                       = (
    "2020-03-13 23:00:00 +0000"
)
Asked by Saaru Lindestøkke (5990 rep)
Mar 14, 2020, 08:57 AM
Last activity: Jun 7, 2020, 04:14 PM