He then explains the challenge of supporting so many character sets, and why UTF-8 made so much sense. We considered making this a Retrotechtacular, ...

Setting Outlook to Use UTF-8. Many of the fonts included with Microsoft Windows have support for languages with non-Latin characters such as Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

New UTF-8 without BOM option A BOM is Unicode character that some text editors and program add to the beginning of a file to indicate that the contents use Unicode encoding.

It is possible to change the default encoding from UTF-8 to ANSI or other using the Registry Editor. Notepad started using UTF-8 as the default character encoding – it used ANSI as the default ...