Does anyone know how to change the default encoding in Notepad? It's presently ANSI and I'd like to change it to UTF-8.

Notepad allows you to create and open documents in several different formats: ANSI, Unicode, big-endian Unicode, or UTF-8. These formats allow you to work with documents that use different character sets. By default, your documents will be saved as standard ANSI text. Unicode is a superset of all the major scripts of the world. It includes character sets common to business and computer use. When you save a document in Unicode, you can use Unicode control characters to help with text flow and direction for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Some fonts cannot display all of the Unicode characters. If you see any characters missing in your text file, you can change the font to one that includes the character. Generally, Microsoft Sans Serif is a good choice for Unicode characters. -------------- I haven't tried this, so I'm in no position to defend the credibility of this statement. I pulled it off the help/search utility in Notepad. You might want to also check for experts in the programming forum. Beauty of the high sierra, and she's looking out for you.

Thanks for your help Dr. Zhivago. Unfortunately your information, whilst interesting, doesn't actually help. I apologise that I hadn't explained the issue properly (my bad!). I need to know how to change the default save-as encoding from "ANSI" to "UTF-8" (so that I don't need to manually change it each time I save a new document). I've tried notepad help without success. I'm not young enough to know everything.