Set Notepad Default UTF8 (UNICODE) encoding

Set Notepad Default UTF8 (UNICODE) encoding is a very small utility with a highly suggestive name that will, as its name says, enable you to modify the default encoding that Notepad uses to save newly created documents.

UTF-8 is a variable width character encoding type that is capable to encode an outstanding number of valid code points in Unicode by making use of up to four 8-bit bytes. UTF-8 stands for Unicode (Universal Coded Character Set) Transformation Format - 8 bit and was designed to be backward compatible with ASCII.

The program, once deployed, will set the encoding to UTF-8, which is more in favor of modern systems as compared to the older ANSI encoding.

Set Notepad Default UTF8 (UNICODE) encoding contains two archives, one with the application that sets the encoding type in your Notepad application to UTF-8 and uses it as its default one and another one that enables and encourages you to upgrade from Notepad to Notepad++ and make it the default text editor on your computer.

The executable in the second archive doesn't actually install Notepad++ on your computer, but only attempts to make it the default text editor. In order for this to happen, you need to install it in the location specified in the BAT file.