I frequently use Notepad++ to edit source code for a very old target system (a PCS) that strictly requires the “OEM-US” character encoding. Some time ago, I created a “User Defined Language” (UDL) for this purpose, and (almost) everything works perfectly. However, I have to manually switch the automatically detected encoding to “OEM-US” every time. It would be great if there were an option in the UDL XML file to specify a particular character encoding so that it is applied automatically when using the UDL.

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