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makeself-archives should be opened encoded UTF-7 , unless you used --base64 , in which case regular UTF-8 is just fine.

So if you use the Kate texteditor of KDE, then set fallback-encoding to UTF-7.

unfortunately, Kate does not allow a modeline for encodings, e.g. the following is impossible:

#kate: byte-order-mark off; encoding UTF-7;