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                                <h1 class="title">Encoding</h1>
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	Text can be encoded in multiple ways. Most (older) text files use an encoding named ANSI, which has room for a limited amount of different characters, but is often sufficient to display all the text. However, Unicode encodings allow for a much richer amount of characters, allowing a single file to contain many languages at once, at the cost of an increase in filesize. Notepad++ will automatically try to detect the encoding used when opening a file, but allows you to change it when editing it. To simply change the displayed encoding (without modifying the actual text), select one of the&nbsp;<span class="menu_item">Format-&gt;Encode in</span> options from the Format menu. The convert the text to a certain encoding, select one of the&nbsp;<span class="menu_item">Format-&gt;Convert to</span> options in the format menu.</p>
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	It can happen that a file is saved with a certain encoding, but upon reopening it in Notepad++ it is detected with another encoding. This is a technical limitation and happens because sometimes the resulting file will not differ even though different encodings are used. This is most noticeable if the file is saved without a special BOM (Byte Order Mark) indicating the used encoding.</p>
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	Notepad++ offers the following encoding schemes:</p>
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		Older encoding, smallest filesize but error prone due to use of various codepages</dd>
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		Unicode encoding, most Western character take one byte of filesize, but other character can take up more, 3 to 4 most commonly. A three byte BOM will be added upon save.</dd>
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		Like UTF-8, but no BOM is added. Saves three bytes, but makes encoding detection harder.</dd>
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		UTF-16 Little Endian</dt>
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		All characters are two bytes in size, pairs are Little Endian ordered. A 2 byte BOM is added upon save.</dd>
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		UTF-16 Big Endian</dt>
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		All characters are two bytes in size, pairs are Big Endian ordered. A 2 byte BOM is added upon save.</dd>
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	In addition, since version 5.6, Notepad++ supports changing the character set being used to display the text, exactly the way you can change it on most web browsers. These encodings are available using the <span class="menu_item">Character sets</span> menu entry which comes right after the <span class="menu_item">Encode in ...</span> family items.</p>
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	Note that, for HTML and XML files, Notepad++ attempts to detect the encoding being used when the file is opened, thus avoiding a number of errors which may not show before the file is being used on a server.</p>
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