hi @Mercutio1243 and welcome to Cursor Forum.
You can control the default encoding for files on Windows using the files.encoding setting. By default, Cursor uses UTF-8, but you can change your settings from UTF-16 LE, to UTF-8.
How to Set the Default Encoding Globally
- Open Cursor settings
- Open Editor Settings
- Search for “files.encoding”.
- Find the Files: Encoding option.
- Set it to your preferred encoding, such as utf8.
