{"id":16767,"date":"2020-12-30T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=16767"},"modified":"2020-12-30T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:26:14","slug":"change-notepad-default-encoding-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-notepad-default-encoding-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Notepad Default Encoding in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a way to change Notepad default encoding to UTF-8 or ANSI in Windows 10? If you always save .txt file with ANSI or other encodings, it&#8217;s better to change the default encoding in Notepad so you don&#8217;t need to manually change the encoding via the <strong>Save As<\/strong> dialog. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you how to change Notepad default encoding in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Change Notepad Default Encoding in Windows 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open Registry Editor<\/a> and browse to: <code>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Notepad<\/code>. In the left pane, right-click on the <strong>Notepad<\/strong> key and select <strong>New<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/new-dword-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/new-dword-1.png 548w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/new-dword-1-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Name the newly created DWORD as <strong>iDefaultEncoding<\/strong>, and then double-click it to modify.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iDefaultEncoding.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iDefaultEncoding.png 548w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iDefaultEncoding-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value dialog, enter the value for your new default encoding and click <strong>OK<\/strong>. In our case, I type 1 for using ANSI encoding.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/edit-dword.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/edit-dword.png 331w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/edit-dword-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 &#8211; ANSI<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; UTF-16 LE<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; UTF-16 BE<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; UTF-8 with BOM<\/li>\n<li>5 &#8211; UTF-8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Registry Editor. Open Notepad and you&#8217;ll see the new default encoding in the status bar.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/notepad-default-encoding.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/notepad-default-encoding.png 533w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/notepad-default-encoding-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a way to change Notepad default encoding to UTF-8 or ANSI in Windows 10? If you always save .txt file with ANSI or other encodings, it&#8217;s better to change the default encoding in Notepad so you don&#8217;t need to manually change the encoding via the Save As dialog. 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