title: What is the default encoding for source files in Visual Studio 2017?
body: <p>It seems Visual Studio 2017 always saves new files as UTF8-BOM.
  It also seems this was not the case with earlier versions of Visual Studio, but I could not find any documentation.</p>
  <p>Also there has been an option &quot;Advanced Save Options\Encoding&quot; which did allow to change the encoding of newly saved files which is missing in VS2017.</p>
  <p>Questions:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Are all file types saved with UTF8-BOM encoding in VS2017?</li>
  <li>Is it possible to configure the encoding for new files in VS2017?</li>
  <li>Will VS2017 change the encoding of &quot;old&quot; files which don't have UTF8-BOM?</li>
  <li>Is there any documentation about this topic?</li>
  </ul>