Displaying Japanese fonts in source code using Visual Studio

Question

I have some source files that have comments written in Japanese. When I open these files in Visual Studio they appear like this:

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Answer 1

You can also convert the text encoding to UTF-8 using Notepad++.

1. Originally encoded as Shift-JIS:

   

2. Convert to UTF-8:

   

3. Save file.

It should now display correctly regardless of local region.