Since 2019 Windows has support for a UTF-8 codepage. You can enable it via the application manifest. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globa

Since 2019 Windows has support for a UTF-8 codepage. You can enable it via the application manifest. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globalizing/use-utf8-code-page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globali... That's just for the application though, the operation system itself is still using UTF-16. Edit: ah, nevermind, that's mentioned by the author in the article