HOW TO SET NOTEPAD TO SAVE IN UNICODE BY DEFAULT

Method 1:

1. Right click -> New -> Text Document
 2. Open "New Text Document.txt". Do NOT type anything!
 3. Go to "File -> Save As... " and choose UniCode under "Encoding:", press "Save" and overwrite existing file. Close the file.
 4. Rename "New Text Document.txt" to "UniCode.txt"
 5. Copy "UniCode.txt" to "C:\WINDOWS\SHELLNEW"
 6. Open Regedit and Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew 
 7. Right click in the right window -> New -> "String Value" and rename it to "FileName".
 8. Double click on "FileName" and put "UniCode.txt" into "Value Data".
 9. press OK It's finished.

Test it: Create new .txt document (Right click -> New -> Text Document). Open it and go to "File -> Save As... " and see that encoding is set by

default to UniCode . :-)

Method 2:

Control Panel > Region > Administrative > language for non-unicode programs > Change system locale (restart your PC)

Thanks!