There is several reasons, why PSPad opens files as ANSI instead of UTF-8 1. there is no BOM and your UTF-8 doesn't contains any accented chars. In this case content of ANSI and UTF-8 is same - there are no chars encoded in UTF-8
2. file is encoded in UTF-8 but there are some errors (e.g. file contains non encoded chars). Typically exports from MySQL. In case you open this file as UTF-8, you will lost some chars. To force PSPad open file as UTF-8: open your file in the format menu click to UTF-8 (click it even UTF-8 is selected) Use reload file (Ctrl+R) -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,65809,65810> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
