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.

You can change the default Character Encoding in Notepad from UTF-8 to ANSI, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, UTF-8 BOM. using Registry Editor.

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors.