ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

If you want to change the default character encoding in Notepad in Windows 11/10, this tutorial will guide you through the process. It is possible to change the default encoding from UTF-8 to ANSI or ...

Quite often, when a sender emails us in Outlook, we do not see the message but instead see unreadable characters. If you regularly see strange or incorrect characters in your Outlook email, this short ...

I'm working on a program that is writing a UTF-8 text file. This process works fine. What doesn't work fine is that TextEdit.app (and others) does not recognise it automatically as a UTF-8 text file, ...