diff --git a/src/Edit.c b/src/Edit.c
index 228bd9e2bd..b92b0eea06 100644
--- a/src/Edit.c
+++ b/src/Edit.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern BOOL bAutoStripBlanks;
 extern int iDefaultCodePage;
 //extern int iDefaultCharSet;
 extern BOOL bLoadANSIasUTF8;
+extern BOOL bLoadASCIIasUTF8;
 extern BOOL bLoadNFOasOEM;
 extern int iSrcEncoding;
 extern int iWeakSrcEncoding;
@@ -951,7 +952,7 @@ BOOL EditSaveFile(HWND hwnd, LPCWSTR pszFile, BOOL bSaveCopy, EditFileIOStatus *
 		int iEncoding = status->iEncoding;
 		UINT uFlags = mEncoding[iEncoding].uFlags;
 		if (cbData >= MAX_NON_UTF8_SIZE) {
-			// save in UTF-8 or ANSI
+			// save as UTF-8 or ANSI
 			if (!(uFlags & (NCP_DEFAULT | NCP_UTF8))) {
 				if (uFlags & NCP_UNICODE_BOM) {
 					iEncoding = CPI_UTF8SIGN;
diff --git a/src/Notepad2.c b/src/Notepad2.c
index 12ac27a13c..c6564cf355 100644
--- a/src/Notepad2.c
+++ b/src/Notepad2.c
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static BOOL bViewEOLs;
 int		iDefaultEncoding;
 BOOL	bSkipUnicodeDetection;
 BOOL	bLoadANSIasUTF8;
+BOOL	bLoadASCIIasUTF8;
 BOOL	bLoadNFOasOEM;
 BOOL	bNoEncodingTags;
 int		iSrcEncoding = -1;
@@ -5375,6 +5376,7 @@ void LoadSettings(void) {
 
 	bSkipUnicodeDetection = IniSectionGetBool(pIniSection, L"SkipUnicodeDetection", 1);
 	bLoadANSIasUTF8 = IniSectionGetBool(pIniSection, L"LoadANSIasUTF8", 0);
+	bLoadASCIIasUTF8 = IniSectionGetBool(pIniSection, L"LoadASCIIasUTF8", 1);
 	bLoadNFOasOEM = IniSectionGetBool(pIniSection, L"LoadNFOasOEM", 1);
 	bNoEncodingTags = IniSectionGetBool(pIniSection, L"NoEncodingTags", 0);
 
@@ -5694,6 +5696,7 @@ void SaveSettings(BOOL bSaveSettingsNow) {
 	IniSectionSetIntEx(pIniSection, L"DefaultEncoding", Encoding_MapIniSetting(FALSE, iDefaultEncoding), Encoding_MapIniSetting(FALSE, CPI_UTF8));
 	IniSectionSetBoolEx(pIniSection, L"SkipUnicodeDetection", bSkipUnicodeDetection, 1);
 	IniSectionSetBoolEx(pIniSection, L"LoadANSIasUTF8", bLoadANSIasUTF8, 0);
+	IniSectionSetBoolEx(pIniSection, L"LoadASCIIasUTF8", bLoadASCIIasUTF8, 1);
 	IniSectionSetBoolEx(pIniSection, L"LoadNFOasOEM", bLoadNFOasOEM, 1);
 	IniSectionSetBoolEx(pIniSection, L"NoEncodingTags", bNoEncodingTags, 0);
 	IniSectionSetIntEx(pIniSection, L"DefaultEOLMode", iDefaultEOLMode, 0);