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How do you reopen a file with encoding in VS Code?

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You can reopen a file with a specific encoding in VS Code by clicking the encoding button in the status bar at the bottom of the window. This will open a popup menu with a list of available encodings. Select the desired encoding and click "Reopen with Encoding".

For example, if you have a file that was saved with UTF-8 encoding but you need to reopen it with Windows-1252 encoding, you would follow these steps:

  1. Open the file in VS Code.
  2. Click the encoding button in the status bar.
  3. Select "Windows-1252" from the list of encodings.
  4. Click "Reopen with Encoding".

This will reopen the file with the new encoding.

Note: If you want to change the default encoding for all files, you can do so in the VS Code settings.

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