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.

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. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content ...

The Notepad in Windows 11/10 gets several new features. You can search selected text with Bing, Delete previously typed word, Wrap Around, Text Zooming, etc.

The new and improved Notepad now has better Unicode support, defaulting to saving files as UTF-8 without a Byte Order Mark; this is the standard way of encoding UTF-8 data, as it maximizes ...

Open Notepad. Click on the "File" menu and then click "Open." Browse to the text document that you want to convert to UTF-8 encoding and open it.

Yes you can. You can do anything in C#. You can code complex games, even. You can code OCR, which may be more relevant here. The PDF, however, is its own problem.