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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #### Features 🚀
 
+- UTF-16 files are automatically detected and supported [#1525](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/1525)
+
 #### Improvements 🧹
 
 #### Bugfixes ⛑️