Windows Server 8 : change encoding settings

Question

hi all,

i wish to change the windows server 2008 encoding.

currently it is set to ISO 8859-1 (BodyName), i wish to change this into UTF-8
more over what exact value should i indicate in order to switch to UTF-8?

can you please help me?

thanks.

regards

Answer 1

Support for Windows Server 2008 already ended and it is better to upgrade to the supported version of Windows Server.

Answer 2

The short answer is no, it is not possible.
To elaborate, there is not a global encoding option in Windows Server 2008 that let us both 1) set a global default which 2) all the applications you listed would obey.
You can't make the conversion of ISO 8859-1 to UTF - 8 in place because the UTF-8 version will be usually longer time (unless you convert a pure ASCII file, which is unnecessary in the first place conversion).

More information here:
https://superuser.com/questions/239810/setting-utf8-as-default-character-encoding-in-windows-7

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