Changing the default ANSI to UTF-8 in Notepad (2 Solutions!!)

Changing the default ANSI to UTF-8 in Notepad


The Question: I got an e-book reader a few months ago, and I finally figured out why it
doesn't display .txt files correctly. It doesn't like ANSI. It has no problem
with the other 3 types of coding notepad provides.
For a reason I chose UTF-8 and decoded all the .txt files I have on it (we are
talking thousands of small but important documents). They work correctly and
now I pay attention to save in UTF-8, but I know myself, I know that at some
point I will forget it, and save in the default ANSI.
So the question after the small novel: Is there any way to change the default
coding when saving a newly opened notepad? (Win 7)
I know about the way to change the default when opening a previously created
.txt file but it's a pain to always create the new document first.

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== This solution helped 6 people ==
This here is a pretty good explanation for how to change your default encoding
to UTF-8. You will need to touch the registry files though.
Personally I wouldn't bother with it. Just download Notepad++. It's free,
awesome and defaults to UTF-8.

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