As I wrote in the topmost message - if it is completely empty, but has the BOM present, so the file is 3 bytes in length, then it is not detected as an empty UTF-8 file, but PSPad opens it as standard text file with these bytes shown with ANSI Central European (1250) CP.
Code Page Autodetect is ON. [URL=http://imageshack.com/f/po4krTFTp] -- Vany (PSPad unicode 5.0.0 (235), W7p x64 cs) <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,68764,69052> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com