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Originally Posted by KevinH
FWIW, a websearch shows Windows 11 does finally have a new feature to make the default encoding utf-8 for all apps, as it is in Notepad now, even for older apps.
But off course it defaults to off, is hidden under Region setting even though utf-8 is regionless, etc. But at least it is there. Hopefully Windows 11 users will find this and enable it so that their system can be just like Web, MacOS, and Linux systems which have had this capability built in for years, so that they can make/edit text that can contain any word, no matter the language. The days of old 8-bit encoding codepages has long passed.
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Failing to find this setting in W11, I did a Google search which gave the following from learn.microsoft.com :
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Set a process code page to UTF-8. To configure your app to render UTF-8 text via GDI, go to Windows Settings > Time & language > Language & region > Administrative language settings > Change system locale, and check Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support. Then reboot the PC for the change to take effect.18 Jul 2025
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Sadly, when you're at 'Language & Region' there is no obvious 'Administrative language settings' and a search in Settings says it doesn't exist.
Further exploration in 'Language & Region' shows the top item is 'Windows display language' and this box has a drop down arrow at far right side (not the one to change the language selection) which when pressed reveals the Beta setting for UTF-8.
Hope this is useful to Windows users.