Trying to offer a clear on-site answer:
- Right click on Desktop, then choose New > Text Document
- A text file
New Text Document.txt
is created. Don't type anything and open it. - Go to File > Save As... and choose UTF-8 under
Encoding:
, pressSave
and overwrite the existing file. Close the file. - Rename
New Text Document.txt
toTXTUTF-8.txt
- Copy
"TXTUTF-8.txt"
toC:\WINDOWS\SHELLNEW
- Go to
Start > Run...
and typeregedit
and press ok - Navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew
- Right click in the right window > New >
String Value
and rename it toFileName
- Double click on
FileName
and putTXTUTF-8.txt
intoValue data:
field and press ok
The flaw of this solution is that whenever you want to open a blank utf-8 txt document you will have to right click > New > Text Document and work from there.
Remember: Modifying the registry is dangerous! Use at your own risk.