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What does it mean when I save a text file as "Unicode" in notepad? is it Utf-8, Utf-16 or Utf-32? Thanks in advance.
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Notepad can manage text encoded in several formats such as ANSI, Unicode and UTF-8. Find these options by clicking the "Encoding" button on Notepad's Save As window. After creating or updating text in a document, you can select one of these encoding options in which to save the file.
"This file contains characters in Unicode format which will be lost if you save this file as an ANSI encoded text file. To keep the Unicode information, click cancel below and then select one of the Unicode options from the Encoding drop-down list. Do you want to continue?" Options were 'OK' and 'Cancel'.
In Notepad, as in Windows software in general, “Unicode” as an encoding name means UTF-16 Little Endian (UTF-16LE). (I first thought it’s not real UTF-16, because Notepad++ recognizes it as UCS-2 and shows the content as garbage, but re-checking with BabelPad, I concluded that Notepad can encode even non-BMP characters correctly.)
Similarly, “Unicode big endian” means UTF-16 Big Endian. And “ANSI” means the system’s native legacy encoding, e.g. the 8-bit windows-1252 encoding in Western versions of Windows.
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