# Prevent the Default Conversion of a Character Set

You can prevent the default conversion of text to the operating system code page, and specify that Filter retain the original character encoding of the document when it is available. Any document identified as containing more than one character encoding is converted to the first encoding encountered in the file.

To prevent the default conversion, set the flag `KVF_NODEFAULTCHARSETCONVERT` as the last argument of the call to fpInit() or fpInitWithLicenseData(). This setting overrides any source or target character set specified through the API.

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