Show special characters in VS Code

Question

I have a problem with my VS Code. When trying to modify a file that contains special characters like "á", "ñ", "ó" etc., the special characters are replaced with a question mark. (See image below.)

Although, this can be solved easily from the back of Visual Studio Code, changing the language type to "Windows 1252", because at first it worked for me. But now, even if I change it to that language, the signs are still there.

Answer 1

the files that you opened before you made the changes to the encoding have been auto-overwritten and the original characters were replaced with the unknown-character character