Why does the Kind column show the Chinese characters 文件 for Markdown files?
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Finder shows the Chinese characters
Same is shown in the inspector:
Through Google Translate I found that the characters
文件
next the md
text in the Kind column for Markdown files:


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
Last activity: Jun 7, 2020, 04:14 PM