How to know file encoding in Microsoft Windows Notepad?

If you want to know the file encoding (UTF-8, ANSI etc.) using Microsoft Windows' Notepad Application you can do it by below simple steps,

1. Open your file in Notepad Application.
2. Go to View and click on Status Bar if that's not selected.
3. Now at the bottom right you should see the encoding of the file.

Let's see a demonstration, as you can see the file that I opened uses ANSI encoding and follows Windows CRLF,

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