I generated Avid markers from a transcript by "simonsays". works fine -  it generats a .txt file with the regular German umlauts like Ö Ä Ü etc. But when I import them in the markers window the Ä Ö Ü get transformed to crazy symbols. So instead "für" I get "f√º" which makes the markers a pain to read. I tried all variations of formating (UTF8, ANSI) but no success

I have the same problem, but the other way around.

Exporting markers as .txt file changes umlauts (in my case not only German ä,ö,ü but also French é,è, etc) in non readable characters that have to be edited manually.

I would be pleased to find a solution.

Here's Your Encoded FileNot near Media Composer but my old notes says that Markers (as .txt - not XML) must be encoded as codepage 10000 aka Mac Roman.

So you need a text editor that will read the file correctly and then save or convert to Mac Roman.

Google says that this will do the job: https://www.editpadpro.com/unicode.html

You can also convert using Python if you are familiar with that. From my notes there is an example that should the oposite of what you need :-) So the encoding should be macroman for the line with fout:

import codecs

with codecs.open(r'd:\macroman.txt', 'r', encoding='macroman') as fin:

    file_content = fin.read()

with codecs.open(r'd:\macroman_utf8.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fout:

    fout.write(file_content)

Edit: And of course there are online options. This is not pretty but seems to work http://www.mimastech.com/charset-converter-free-online-text-files-charset-converter/. Just select "Target CharSet Encoding: Macintosh". Click Convert and look for the link "Here's your encoded file"