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How to set Notepad2 to use UTF-8 instead of ANSI

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Mar 15, 20262217 views
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Problem

Each time I create a new file in Notepad2, the encoding is ANSI (1252). I'd like instead to have UTF-8 as default. Is there a way to get this ?

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Fix for: How to set Notepad2 to use UTF-8 instead of ANSI

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If the change doesn't stick when you restart Notepad2 change the default again and then try : This is using Notepad2 v4.2.25

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