Notepad can manage text encoded in several formats such as ANSI, Unicode and UTF-8. Find these options by clicking the "Encoding" button on Notepad's Save As window.

Using the in-built utilities Charmap and Eudcedit, Windows allows you to insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad and your other documents. But the process is not easy and takes a bit of time.

Notepad saves files as UTF-8 without BOM by default In this build, Microsoft added the ability to save files as UTF-8 without a BOM (Byte Order Mark), which is labeled as the "UTF-8" option when ...

Windows 11 Notepad's right-click menu is getting a new clutter-free UI that looks a lot like the menu from File Explorer.