Finding out the default character encoding in Windows
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 44
You can check with PowerShell:
[System.Text.Encoding]::Default
which even enables you to check that across several machines at once.
ANSWER 2
Score 3
In .NET Core and .NET 5+ it is System.Text.Encoding.Default gives instance of UTF8. While .NET 4 and previous versions return Windows Active one. You can find more details on following: Microsoft Reference for Encoding
