Hello If you use work with different code pages, using unicode files is the best solution. Costs: bigger file size - unicode files in case of UTF-16 is 2 times bigger, cause one char consums 2 bytes. In present world is it nothing.
Advantages: you can combine code pages in one file - you can write part in german, part in chinese in one file. Your files will be independent of system settings - you can open it anywhere correctly. You can convert it into ANSI in case of need. I suggest you to use UTF-16LE. UTF-8 with BOM (Begin Order Mark) is useable too, but UTF-16 is better standard. -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,69681,69713> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
