http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18192
--- Comment #4 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-04-25 12:17:46 --- (In reply to comment #3)
Wine notepad always saves in current Windows encoding (just like Win9x and NT 40 does), so it's normal that it doesn't match your Linux locale. Windows notepad at least in XP is able to save in UTF-8, but only if asked for.
Right. My explanation was a bit unclear about that.
Though I've had times where notepad prompted me to save as UTF-8, or risk losing data. I can't remember what character it was, or if it was 2K or XP. I'll test around at work when I get a chance.