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In my projects, there are some files not in single byte character (Asia characters). I can not view these files correctly within NetBeans. I think there should be able to set encoding in File properties dialog (context menu by click on file and select Properties) or select encoding in View menu. My local setting is en_US. Because we develop English software, but also do some i18n works. I remember file encoding could be set on JSP files in very early NetBeans versions. Is it still exist? I think this feature also should be used on other file types. Just like other editors, user can select character encoding.
In general file encoding is controlled on the project level. Specific file types may allow to override this for each particular file of that type (eg. AFAIK jsp or html files do this, but not java, for example). What file types are you using?
I am using .txt files. These files are stored in UTF-8 character set. I thought open other files (not java or properties) should let user to select their encoding. Some time open them within IDE is more convinent than use outer editor.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19928 ***