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How do I set my book to save with UTF-8 character encoding on Windows in Notepad?
How do I set my book to save with UTF-8 character encoding on Windows in Notepad?

Keywords: UTF-8, Windows, Notepad, PC

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Written by Leanpub Support
Updated over 2 years ago

You may save a file using Notepad (sometimes called "Editor") as UTF-8 but not with Wordpad.

1. Open Notepad

2. File - Save as -> there you see 3 fields set the last one called "encoding" to: UTF-8

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