Editing Windows Notepad (section)

===Encoding support===
Notepad supports the following [[character encoding]]s:
*"ANSI" (the locale-dependent [[codepage]])
*Unicode, encoded as:
**[[UCS-2]] (Windows NT 3.5 to 2000)
**[[UTF-16]] (Windows 2000 or later), both little- and big-endian
**[[UTF-8]] (Windows 2000 or later)
***Before Windows 10, Notepad always inserted a [[byte order mark]] character at the start of the file. Since Windows 10, the BOM has been optional.
Starting with Windows 10 1809 Insider build, it supports Unix-style (LF) and Classic Mac OS -style (CR) [[newline|line endings]], along with the native DOS/Windows CRLF style. Before this, only CRLF line endings were recognized.<ref>{{cite web|date=2018-05-08|title=Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad|url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330091723/https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2023-03-30|publisher=[[Microsoft]]}}</ref>

Opening and editing in left-to-right and right-to-left based languages are done via [[RichEdit]] controls and [[input method editors]], available in versions for Windows XP or later.