Hello If there is no BOM and only few characters on the page somewhere, it's hard to recognize, that it's UTF-8 encoded. The difference between UTF-8 and ANSI are the chara from #128 and above.
Switch on the Save file state option in the program settings/ files. PSPad will remeber the state as you save your file. -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,79704,79705> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
