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**Revolt** · May 8, 2020, 3:53pm

And because of this, you don’t exactly know that you have to save the file for the new encoding to be persisted on disk,

**bschaaf** · May 8, 2020, 4:26pm

Sublime Text only has two options for changing the encoding. You either re-open the file using the encoding or you save the file using an encoding. If you’re re-opening a file with an encoding, there are no changes to save.

**Revolt** · May 8, 2020, 6:33pm

It has Set Encoding, not save the file using an encoding:

**Revolt** · May 8, 2020, 6:34pm

By clicking on UTF-8:

**bschaaf** · May 9, 2020, 6:18am

Are you perhaps using Atom? Sublime Text does not have an encoding option in the bottom right.

**jfcherng** · May 9, 2020, 6:53am

ST has "show_encoding": true,

**bschaaf** · May 9, 2020, 7:01am

Well you learn something new every day, didn’t know we had that! That does seem like a bug then.

Changing the encoding of a file doesn't mark it as changed