Change encoding on a per file or per extension basis

Question

I\'m using Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. It seems that every file which I open with it gets encoded into UTF-8. For most files which are going to be web-fa

Answer 1

Open the problematic file in Visual Studio and...

• On the File menu, click Advanced Save Options.
• In the Encoding dropdown, select Unicode (UTF-8 … or the encoding you require.
• Click OK.

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