Using the in-built utilities Charmap and Eudcedit, Windows allows you to insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad and your other documents. But the process is not easy and takes a bit of time.

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors.

Windows 11 Notepad's right-click menu is getting a new clutter-free UI that looks a lot like the menu from File Explorer.