Your Question: How Do I Change the Default Encoding in Windows 10?

How do I change the encoding in Windows 10?

View the System Locale settings for Windows

1. Click Start then Control Panel.
2. Click Clock, Language and Region.
3. Windows 10, Windows 8: Click Region. …
4. Click the Administrative tab. …
5. Under the Language for non-Unicode programs section, click Change system locale and select the desired language.
6. Click OK.

How do I change my default encoding?

2 Answers

1. For Eclipse, default encoding for new files can be set from Windows > Preferences > General > Content Types (see post on Eclipse Community Forms)
2. For Notepad++, navigate to Settings > Preferences > New Document/Default/Directory and set Encoding to UTF-8.