I was referring to what I read at the first link below; but I have subsequently checked on a Windows 10 Pro machine to which I have access and it is as was already stated by TripeHound. The second link claims it can be changed by running a script but I did not try that out of fear I'd irreversibly mess something else up in the OS doing so. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-notepad-is-getting-better-utf-8-encoding-support/ https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/110704-unreadable-non-ansi-characters-notepad.html