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I've started redacting markdown files inside VSCode (currently VS Codium, but I face the same issue in VSCode as well). What bothers me is that I see an odd preview with Chinese hieroglyphs everywhere: enter image description here I have no markdown extension installed (as seen on the left side of the screenshot). I tried to search for it, found extension's repo and looked for any similarly named files at %USERPROFILE%\.vscode-oss\extensions, but to no avail. Is there a way to find any markdown-related settings or somehow force the app to use a standard markdown editor or another extension? Thanks in advance.

rioV8
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Andrii
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    you can't get rid of build in extensions, you can disable them – rioV8 Sep 03 '22 at 23:20
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    that is not from the build in Markdown extension, disable all instaleld and try again – rioV8 Sep 03 '22 at 23:24
  • @rioV8 thank you, decided to pinpoint it by disabling extensions one by one. Turns out, that the Office Viewer extension is causing it. However, it still doesn't change my question - can I override settings what markdown editor should be used? Or removing extensions causing issues is my only solution? – Andrii Sep 05 '22 at 00:11
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    there is no special Markdown editor, you edit a text file and use a Markdown Viewer that translates Markdown to HTML in a Webview – rioV8 Sep 05 '22 at 02:17

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Thanks to the great comment by rioV8 decided to just go through it manually.
Turns out, that the "Office Viewer" extension is causing it.
While I wanted to find a way to change it without deleting the extension, technically the question is answered.

Andrii
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From the instructions for Office Viewer

If you want to use the original vscode editor, insert this in your settings.json.

{ "workbench.editorAssociations": { "*.md": "default" } }

Dennis
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