How to change encoding system to UTF-8?

Question

I have this issue withe encoding system is fixed ANSI as default in Windows Notepad 11.2410.20.0

How can I change it from the system settings itself to another encoding system?

With this encoding system I cannot read my old files from old systems, I tried to re "save as" and changed encoding system to UTF-8, still not solved.

When I open with the "WORD" shows me the encoding system need to be chosen first to make it readable.

I hope the screen shots vary clear.

Answer 1

Hello Crystali,

Thanks for reaching out here in the Microsoft Answers Community.

Based on the description, it seems that the text cannot be displayed because you are using a font that does not contain the arabic letters. The built-in Notepad application can only use a single font, with no fallback.

There are 3 ways to solve the issue:

• Set the notepad font to one that has Arabic letters. However, such fonts may not have other letters available.
• Install a pan-Unicode font, like GNU Unifont, and set the notepad font to it.
• Use a third-party text/code editor that supports font fallbacks.

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