You can change the default Character Encoding in Notepad from UTF-8 to ANSI, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, UTF-8 BOM. using Registry Editor. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content ...

Click the Replace or Replace All ; Open Notepad and paste the entire text or open the file if you already saved the paragraph in Notepad. After that, go to the Edit menu and choose the Replace option.