How to set standard encoding in Visual Studio

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I am searching for a way to setup Visual Studio so it always saves my files in UTF-8   I have only found options to set this project wide  Is there a way to set it Visual Studio wide

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I work with Windows7   Control Panel - Region and Language - Administrative - Language for non-Unicode programs   After I set  Change system locale  to English United States   My default encoding of vs2010 change to Windows-1252  It was gb2312 before   I created a new  cpp file for a C   project  after checking in the new file to TFS the encoding show Windows-1252 from the properties page of the file

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I don t know of a global setting nither but you can try this    Save all Visual Studio templates in UTF-8  Write a Visual Studio Macro Addin that will listen to the DocumentSaved event and will save the file in UTF-8 format  if not already   Put a proxy on your source control that will make sure that new files are always UTF-8

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Do you want the files to save as UTF-8 because you are using special characters that would be lost in ASCII encoding   If that s the case  then there is a VS2008 global setting in Tools  gt  Options  gt  Environment  gt  Documents  named Save documents as Unicode when data cannot be saved in codepage   When this is enabled  VS2008 will save as Unicode if certain characters cannot be represented in the otherwise-default codepage   Also  which files are not being saved as UTF-8   All of my  cs   csproj   sln   config   as x  etc  all save as UTF-8  with signature  the byte order marks   by default

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What  It is possible with EditorConfig       EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding   styles between different editors and IDEs    This also includes file encoding   EditorConfig is built-in Visual Studio 2017 by default  and I there were plugins available for versions as old as VS2012  Read more from EditorConfig Visual Studio Plugin page   How  You can set up a EditorConfig configuration file high enough in your folder structure to span all your intended repos   up to your drive root should your files be really scattered everywhere  and configure the setting charset      charset  set to latin1  utf-8  utf-8-bom  utf-16be or utf-16le to   control the character set    You can add filters and exceptions etc on every folder level or by file name type should you wish for finer control   Once configured then compatible IDEs should automatically do it s thing to make matching files comform to set rules  Note that Visual Studio does not automatically convert all your files but do its bit when you work with files in IDE  open and save     What next  While you could have a Visual-studio-wide setup  I strongly suggest to still include an EditorConfig root to your solution version control  so that explicit settings are automatically synced to all team members as well  Your drive root editorconfig file can be the fallback should some project not have their own editorconfig files set up yet

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The Problem is Windows and Microsoft applications put byte order marks at the beginning of all your files so other applications often break or don t read these UTF-8 encoding marks  I perfect example of this problem was triggering quirsksmode in old IE web browsers when encoding in UTF-8 as browsers often display web pages based on what encoding falls at the start of the page  It makes a mess when other applications view those UTF-8 Visual Studio pages  I usually do  not recommend Visual Studio Extensions  but I do this one to fix that issue  Fix File Encoding  https   vlasovstudio com fix-file-encoding  The FixFileEncoding above install REMOVES the byte order mark and forces VS to save ALL FILES without signature in UTF-8  After installing go to Tools  gt  Option then choose  quot FixFileEncoding quot   It should allow you to set all saves as UTF-8   Add  quot cshtml to the list of files to always save in UTF-8 without the byte order mark as so   quot   htm html cshtml    quot   Now open one of your files in Visual Studio  To verify its saving as UTF-8 go to File  gt  Save As  then under the Save button choose  quot Save With Encoding quot   It should choose  quot UNICODE  Save without Signature  quot  by default from the list of encodings  Now when you save that page it should always save as UTF-8 without byte order mark at the beginning of the file when saving in Visual Studio

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