How to change the encoding in Notepad

Notepad is a handy and simple program on any computer. With its help you can create a small program and even page. The interface of Notepad is understandable even for ordinary users. When you use maybe will need to change the encoding. Usually the default is ANSI. To implement this operation, you need to do a few steps in the settings.

How to change the encoding in Notepad
How to change the encoding of the document
How to change the encoding of text file
How to choose a charset which will allow you to read the document

You will need

Personal computer, Notebook

Instruction

Go to Notepad. Write your desired text. Save it. Reopen the text. Go to the tab "Format", which is on the toolbar. Select "Font". Before you open the window. Select "Terminal". Press "OK".

Can download Internet utility NotePad++ . This program is very easy to edit files. Download and install Notepad, NotePad++. To open it, go to "My computer" and the tab "Running programs". There should be a paragraph NotePad++. Go to it. To change the encoding of the text required, it is necessary to go under "File". Select the option "Encoging". Then, click "UTF-8". Once you do, you can proceed to the actual changes. You will also need a program Total Commander. To it attach the NotePad++. In the Total Commander, open the tab "Configuration". Next, go to "settings: edit/View". Before you open the window "settings". Where it says "default" and select NotePad++. Click "OK".

Open Total Commander and start Notepad, NotePad++. Click in Notepad and "Encoding". Select "Encode in UTF-8 (without BOM)". Change the text what you need and save.

You can change the encoding in another way. Open Notepad. Enter the desired text. Click "File" and "Save as ". In the window that appears, paste the file name and file type. Where it says "Encoding", select it and save.

If you need to read the page, and there is unclear to you encoding, then also you can use Notepad. Save the page of the website. Click right mouse button and select "Open with Notepad". You will see the text. Find this line "Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251". Remove it and insert the text "charset=utf-8". Next, click on "File" and "Save as". When you save, select character encoding to UTF-8. The file name does not change. Now again unable to open this page of the website, and you will see plain, readable text.

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