How to setup Visual Studio Code to detect and set the correct encoding on file open

Question

I recently started to use Visual Studio Code on Server Systems where I did not have Studio IDE installed. I like it very much but I\'m running into a problem.

When I open

Answer 1

To allow Visual Studio Code to automatically detect the encoding of a file, you can set "files.autoGuessEncoding":true (in the settings.json configuration file).

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/21416

This obviously requires an updated verison of the application compared to when the question was originally asked.