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Copper Contributor

Aug 21, 2019

Notepad Default encoding UTF8 Windows 10 Version 1903

Hello, does anyone know if you can re-enable ANSI encoding by registry in the notepad, instead of the default UTF8 encoding, which is given since Windows 10 version 1903.

salclem2

Copper Contributor

Oct 28, 2019

lexikos

"Of course, there's no need to worry about UTF-8 vs. ANSI in the first place if every file contains only ASCII text."

Wrong. If you write for example "è" in notepad, when you open the file with another text editor, you will see "Ã¨" and not "è". Then, there's need to worry about UTF-8 vs ANSI, because "è" has his ASCII code, i.e. 232

Simon_Hooper

Copper Contributor

Oct 01, 2020

@lexikos Actually ".............if every file contains only ASCII text." is correct. ASCII is a 7 bit encoding. Code 232 is not ASCII which is the point of salclem2 comment.