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I am trying to force PhpStorm to encode newly created files as UTF-8, instead of Windows-1252 (which seems to be the default).

I know I can set "Project encoding" in "settings/editor/file encodings", which sets the default encoding for all newly created files in the current project.

However I'd like to set default encoding for new projects, so I will not have to change it every time I create a new project. I've searched far and wide on the internets, but with no success.

Do you guys know how to set file encoding for new projects?

Thanks in advance.

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  • The IDE uses the default of the underlying operation system. And indeed many installations of MS-Windows still use totally outdated 8-bit encodings (like Windows-1252, which is close to ISO-latin1). Check if ou can switch the operating systems settings, so your file systems default encoding. Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 10:41

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All available settings that are used as defaults for newly created projects can be set at File | Default Settings....

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/2016.3/accessing-default-settings.html

You can also access them directly from Welcome screen -- will be just Settings under Configure drop down (could be called Preferences on Mac -- cannot verify that as I have no Mac). But in this case default settings will be mixed with IDE-wide settings as well.

In both cases the options you need to change will be under Editor | File Encodings.

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I have to try it out, but it seems this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much, you saved me a lot of trouble. (I always remember to set it to UTF-8 only after some file gets messed up by the wrong encoding :D )
It works -- I did set it up few years ago and still got UTF-8 in all new projects.
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When creating new projects, you can set a proper IDE Encoding, its right next to the Project Encoding:

File Encodings PHPStorm

When you edit an existing project, it automatically recognizes the current encoding and offers you to convert/reload the project in a proper encoding.

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I have IDE Encoding set to UTF-8, but whenever I create a new project, it is always created with Project Encoding - Windows 1252

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