Windows 10: Wish "New Text Document" in UTF-8 with BOM format

I work with UTF-8 text files a lot in my professional life.When we create a new text file using Explorer's context menu "New -> Text Document", the text file is actually an empty file 0 byte. Every time I have to do a "Save as..." and choose UTF8 with BOM option.I would be nice if there is a way to change this, at least in my computers. That means when a new text file is created, it already has the UTF-8 BOM.Thanks in advance.

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wordpad has trouble recognizing utf-8 without BOM

Wordpad has trouble recognizing UTF-8 without BOM

 

win10.0.14393efault UTF-8 encoding for new Notepad documents

Hi,

I realize that you want to create a new notepad document with default utf-8 encoding. I will try to help you with this issue.

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Txt files are not getting converted to ANSI from UTF-8 on Windows 11. Can anyone help me on this?

An ANSI text file and a UTF-8 text file without BOM (Byte Order Mark) can sometimes be difficult to distinguish. They are determined to be in one format or the other based on content. That is, the text editor has to essentially make an educated guess whether it should decode the bytes as ANSI or UTF-8. Therefore, in order to determine where things are going wrong, it's important to see what is being misinterpreted. Please post a screenshot of the problem you are seeing. Then I'll have a proper starting point to determine a possible solution.

Please note that a file that opens as "UTF-8" will be identical to a file that opens as "ANSI" if there are no Unicode characters. That is, if all the bytes are ANSI compatible, it does not matter if the editor says it's a UTF-8 file or an ANSI file.