Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters.

Using the in-built utilities Charmap and Eudcedit, Windows allows you to insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad and your other documents. But the process is not easy and takes a bit of time.

Notepad saves files as UTF-8 without BOM by default In this build, Microsoft added the ability to save files as UTF-8 without a BOM (Byte Order Mark), which is labeled as the "UTF-8" option when ...

The new and improved Notepad now has better Unicode support, defaulting to saving files as UTF-8 without a Byte Order Mark; this is the standard way of encoding UTF-8 data, as it maximizes ...