Describe the request

It would be great if in the serial monitor had an option to change the encoding used.

In my case, my sketches are using UTF-8, so print messages use that encoding. By default, serial monitor is using ISO-8859 (probably the default one of Windows 7), so those print messages are not shown properly:

Additional context

I've found other issues talking about this problem. Instead of detecting the encoding used, it might be easier if the user could select the charset he wants to use. The option (a selectable list with the most used character sets) may be put in the bottom right corner, left of the two existing selects (baud rate and line feed).

Additional requests:

• serial monitor (interfase) add mode ASCII or ANSI or UTF8 Arduino#7856