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

• Go to File-> Preferences -> User Settings
• Add (or update) the entry "files.encoding": "windows1252" to the right editor window and save

Now VSCode opens all text files using windows-1252 when there is no proper encoding information set.

EDIT: In 2017's June release the files.autoGuessEncoding setting was introduced. When enabled it will guess the file's encoding as good as possible. Its default value is false .