Hello Don't open it as UTF-8, but open is as ANSI. In this case PSPad opens your file as Notepad. Mixing UTF-8 encodig with ANSI encoding isn't good idea.
PSPad detects UTF-8 encoding automatically but can't open it directly as UTF-8, cause there are non UTF-8 encoded chars. Version 5.0.7 will ask you and you can decide, if you want to open it as UTF-8 or not. -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,76485,76487> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
