You can see the selected character encoding in the Status Bar. In case you want to get back to the original, navigate to the same path in the Registry Editor and right-click on iDefaultEncoding.

See how to enable Status Bar in Notepad. 6) You can remove or change Notepad headers and footers. If you open Notepad > File > Page Setup, you will see that the default header and footer settings are: ...

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors.