I'm all-in on the usefulness of UTF-8, I wish there was a way to configure Windows to reliably use it as its default character encoding. If I create a file with

I'm all-in on the usefulness of UTF-8, I wish there was a way to configure Windows to reliably use it as its default character encoding. If I create a file with Notepad containing the line café=123 and save it without specifying an encoding, I can't import it into Python. I spend a lot of time on StackOverflow and I don't remember seeing that problem come up.