ANSI seems limited compared to say UTF-8, yet it’s the default file encoding in Notepad++, so I was wondering.
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ANSI seems limited compared to say UTF-8, yet it’s the default file encoding in Notepad++, so I was wondering.
Well, if you can encode everything in ANSI (whatever ANSI happens to mean on your computer; it’s a horribly ambiguous term), then it may be shorter in UTF-8. For non-ASCII characters, ANSI encodings can still encode each character in a single byte, whereas they’ll take more bytes in UTF-8.
It’s a tiny advantage though, and the disadvantages are significant IMO – I would definitely go with UTF-8.