diff --git a/StarterNG.Tests/LegacyTextTests.cs b/StarterNG.Tests/LegacyTextTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e48eee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/StarterNG.Tests/LegacyTextTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
+
+namespace StarterNG.Tests;
+
+public class LegacyTextTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public void The_game_code_page_resolves_without_anyone_registering_it_first()
+    {
+        // Regression guard: when this falls back, every Polish character in a
+        // scenery description comes out as Latin-1 mojibake ("Skład" as "Sk³ad").
+        Assert.False(LegacyText.IsFallback);
+        Assert.Equal(1250, LegacyText.CodePage1250.CodePage);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Polish_characters_survive_a_round_trip_through_it()
+    {
+        const string text = "Skład wygaszony pod wjazdowym. Strzebiń - Woźniki Śl.";
+
+        byte[] bytes = LegacyText.CodePage1250.GetBytes(text);
+
+        Assert.Equal(text, LegacyText.CodePage1250.GetString(bytes));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_scenery_written_in_the_game_code_page_reads_back_intact()
+    {
+        var files = new StarterNG.Tests.Fakes.InMemoryFileSystem()
+            .WithLegacyFile(StarterNG.Tests.Fakes.TestInstallation.At("scenery", "td.scn"),
+                            "//$n Strzebiń - Woźniki Śl. '92\n//$d Skład wygaszony pod wjazdowym.");
+
+        var scenery = Assert.Single(new StarterNG.Tests.Fakes.TestInstallation(files).Sceneries.LoadAll());
+
+        Assert.Equal("Strzebiń - Woźniki Śl. '92", scenery.Name);
+        Assert.Equal("Skład wygaszony pod wjazdowym.", scenery.Description);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/StarterNG/Application/SettingsStore.cs b/StarterNG/Application/SettingsStore.cs
index 9edb3d0..bdd40c9 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Application/SettingsStore.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Application/SettingsStore.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ using StarterNG.Application.Abstractions;
 using StarterNG.Classes;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Settings;
 using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Settings;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Application;
 
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ public sealed class SettingsStore
         _paths = paths;
         _serializer = serializer;
         _executables = executables;
-        _encoding = LegacyEncoding();
+        _encoding = LegacyText.CodePage1250;
     }
 
     /// <summary>The settings the application is running with.</summary>
@@ -172,20 +173,4 @@ public sealed class SettingsStore
 
     public string ResolveExecutable(out ExeProblem problem) => _executables.Resolve(Settings, out problem);
 
-    /// <summary>
-    /// The .ini keeps its own code page. UTF-8 is a safe fallback if the code
-    /// page provider is unavailable.
-    /// </summary>
-    private static Encoding LegacyEncoding()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
-        }
-        catch (Exception)
-        {
-            return Encoding.UTF8;
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Application/StartSimulation.cs b/StarterNG/Application/StartSimulation.cs
index fd28b53..a6b75dd 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Application/StartSimulation.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Application/StartSimulation.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ using StarterNG.Application.Abstractions;
 using StarterNG.Classes;
 using StarterNG.Domain;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Settings;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Application;
 
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ public sealed class StartSimulation
         {
             _files.WriteAllText(exportPath,
                                 scenery.BuildExportContent(_settings.Settings.IgnoreIrrelevantTrains, _random),
-                                LegacyEncoding());
+                                LegacyText.CodePage1250);
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
@@ -174,15 +175,4 @@ public sealed class StartSimulation
         };
     }
 
-    private static Encoding LegacyEncoding()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
-        }
-        catch (Exception)
-        {
-            return Encoding.Latin1;
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Classes/KeyboardConfig.cs b/StarterNG/Classes/KeyboardConfig.cs
index b3fd6cd..b717853 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Classes/KeyboardConfig.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Classes/KeyboardConfig.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Classes;
 
@@ -43,8 +44,7 @@ public sealed class KeyboardConfig
 
         try
         {
-            Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
+            return LegacyText.CodePage1250;
         }
         catch
         {
diff --git a/StarterNG/Classes/PresetStore.cs b/StarterNG/Classes/PresetStore.cs
index c024e57..b03a748 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Classes/PresetStore.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Classes/PresetStore.cs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ using System.Text.Json;
 using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
 using System.Text.Json.Serialization.Metadata;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Classes;
 
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ public static class PresetStore
         int added = 0;
         try
         {
-            string text = File.ReadAllText(path, Encoding.GetEncoding(1250));
+            string text = File.ReadAllText(path, LegacyText.CodePage1250);
             var section = Regex.Matches(text,
                 @"\[TRAINSET\d+\s*=\s*([^\]]*)\](.*?)(?=\[TRAINSET|\z)",
                 RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline);
diff --git a/StarterNG/Domain/TrainsetDisplay.cs b/StarterNG/Domain/TrainsetDisplay.cs
index 040add4..10037af 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Domain/TrainsetDisplay.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Domain/TrainsetDisplay.cs
@@ -169,11 +169,17 @@ public static class TrainsetDisplay
             if (p != null)
                 massKg += p.Mass;
 
-            if (loadWeightKg != null &&
-                car.LoadCount > 0 &&
-                !string.IsNullOrEmpty(car.LoadType) &&
-                LoadAccepted(p, car.LoadType))
-                loadKg += (double)car.LoadCount * loadWeightKg(car.LoadType);
+            if (loadWeightKg != null && car.LoadCount > 0 && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(car.LoadType))
+            {
+                if (LoadAccepted(p, car.LoadType))
+                    loadKg += (double)car.LoadCount * loadWeightKg(car.LoadType);
+                else
+                    // The scenery loads something this vehicle's .fiz does not
+                    // accept. It is left out of the gross mass, and saying so beats
+                    // leaving the reading quietly short.
+                    AppServices.Current.Log.Log(
+                        $"{car.Name}: nieobslugiwany ladunek \"{car.LoadType}\"");
+            }
         }
         return (lengthM, massKg, loadKg);
     }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Domain/UDepot.cs b/StarterNG/Domain/UDepot.cs
index 25beae8..36ee242 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Domain/UDepot.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Domain/UDepot.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using StarterNG.Classes;
 using StarterNG.Infrastructure;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Domain;
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ public static class UDepot
         string text;
         try
         {
-            text = File.ReadAllText(file, Encoding.GetEncoding(1250));
+            text = File.ReadAllText(file, LegacyText.CodePage1250);
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ public static class UDepot
 
             string? dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(dir)) Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
-            File.WriteAllText(path, sb.ToString(), Encoding.GetEncoding(1250));
+            File.WriteAllText(path, sb.ToString(), LegacyText.CodePage1250);
             return true;
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
diff --git a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Adapters/LegacyText.cs b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Adapters/LegacyText.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa48b34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Adapters/LegacyText.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+using System;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The code page every file the simulator owns is written in: sceneries,
+/// textures.txt, .fiz, timetables, eu07.ini.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// Code page 1250 is not built into .NET; it arrives with
+/// <see cref="CodePagesEncodingProvider"/>, which has to be registered before the
+/// first <c>GetEncoding</c> call. Doing that registration at each call site is how
+/// Polish characters end up as Latin-1 mojibake ("Skład" as "Sk³ad"): whichever
+/// site runs first wins, and the composition root builds its repositories before
+/// any of them. One property, resolved once, removes the ordering question.
+/// </remarks>
+public static class LegacyText
+{
+    /// <summary>The .scn / .fiz / .ini code page, or Latin-1 if it is unavailable.</summary>
+    public static Encoding CodePage1250 { get; } = Resolve();
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// True when the code page could not be loaded and text is being read as
+    /// Latin-1 instead. Polish characters will be wrong; the startup check
+    /// reports it rather than leaving it to be discovered on screen.
+    /// </summary>
+    public static bool IsFallback { get; private set; }
+
+    private static Encoding Resolve()
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);
+            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
+        }
+        catch (Exception)
+        {
+            IsFallback = true;
+            return Encoding.Latin1;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Sceneries/SceneryRepository.cs b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Sceneries/SceneryRepository.cs
index afcb536..e8308a2 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Sceneries/SceneryRepository.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Sceneries/SceneryRepository.cs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using StarterNG.Application.Abstractions;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Sceneries;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Infrastructure.Sceneries;
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ public sealed class SceneryRepository : ISceneryRepository
         _paths = paths;
         _log = log;
         _parser = parser;
-        _encoding = CodePage1250();
+        _encoding = LegacyText.CodePage1250;
     }
 
     public IReadOnlyList<Scenery> LoadAll(IProgress<SceneryLoadProgress>? progress = null)
@@ -83,19 +84,4 @@ public sealed class SceneryRepository : ISceneryRepository
         _files.GetFiles(_paths.Scenery, "*.scn")
               .Where(path => Path.GetFileName(path).FirstOrDefault() != ExcludedPrefix);
 
-    /// <summary>
-    /// The .scn dialect predates Unicode. The provider is registered by the entry
-    /// point; fall back to Latin-1 if that ever fails so loading still works.
-    /// </summary>
-    private static Encoding CodePage1250()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
-        }
-        catch (Exception)
-        {
-            return Encoding.Latin1;
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/FizPhysicsRepository.cs b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/FizPhysicsRepository.cs
index 1856982..b530a59 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/FizPhysicsRepository.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/FizPhysicsRepository.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using StarterNG.Application.Abstractions;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Vehicles;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Infrastructure.Vehicles;
 
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ public sealed class FizPhysicsRepository : IPhysicsRepository
         _files = files;
         _paths = paths;
         _log = log;
-        _encoding = LegacyEncoding();
+        _encoding = LegacyText.CodePage1250;
     }
 
     public void Preload() => Index();
@@ -270,15 +271,4 @@ public sealed class FizPhysicsRepository : IPhysicsRepository
                  .ToList();
     }
 
-    private static Encoding LegacyEncoding()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
-        }
-        catch (Exception)
-        {
-            return Encoding.Latin1;
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/LoadWeightsRepository.cs b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/LoadWeightsRepository.cs
index 486c991..8639771 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/LoadWeightsRepository.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/LoadWeightsRepository.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
 using StarterNG.Application.Abstractions;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Vehicles;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Infrastructure.Vehicles;
 
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ public sealed class LoadWeightsRepository
 
         try
         {
-            return new LoadWeightsTable(ParsePairs(_files.ReadAllText(path, LegacyEncoding())));
+            return new LoadWeightsTable(ParsePairs(_files.ReadAllText(path, LegacyText.CodePage1250)));
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
@@ -100,15 +101,4 @@ public sealed class LoadWeightsRepository
         return weights;
     }
 
-    private static Encoding LegacyEncoding()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
-        }
-        catch (Exception)
-        {
-            return Encoding.Latin1;
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/TexturesTxtVehicleRepository.cs b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/TexturesTxtVehicleRepository.cs
index 6c959ab..d2f709c 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/TexturesTxtVehicleRepository.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Infrastructure/Vehicles/TexturesTxtVehicleRepository.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
 using StarterNG.Application.Abstractions;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Vehicles;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Infrastructure.Vehicles;
 
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ public sealed class TexturesTxtVehicleRepository : IVehicleRepository
         _paths = paths;
         _log = log;
         _parser = parser;
-        _encoding = LegacyEncoding();
+        _encoding = LegacyText.CodePage1250;
     }
 
     public int Load(VehicleCatalog catalog)
@@ -98,15 +99,4 @@ public sealed class TexturesTxtVehicleRepository : IVehicleRepository
         return relative.Replace('\\', '/').TrimEnd('/') + "/";
     }
 
-    private static Encoding LegacyEncoding()
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            return Encoding.GetEncoding(1250);
-        }
-        catch (Exception)
-        {
-            return Encoding.Latin1;
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/StarterNG/Views/Scenarios.axaml.cs b/StarterNG/Views/Scenarios.axaml.cs
index 3339d08..a55b984 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Views/Scenarios.axaml.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Views/Scenarios.axaml.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ using StarterNG.Domain;
 using StarterNG.Application;
 using StarterNG.Domain.Sceneries;
 using StarterNG.Presentation.Scenarios;
+using StarterNG.Infrastructure.Adapters;
 
 namespace StarterNG.Views;
 
@@ -708,7 +709,7 @@ public partial class Scenarios : UserControl
 
         try
         {
-            timetableContent.Text = File.ReadAllText(path, Encoding.GetEncoding(1250));
+            timetableContent.Text = File.ReadAllText(path, LegacyText.CodePage1250);
             UpdateTimetableTab(true);
         }
         catch