Docker Setup in Windows

When setting up Docker in Windows, there is a potential issue involving the text editor used to house the Docker files. Specifically in VS Code (but perhaps other text editors as well), the default encoding for the Docker startup file is sometimes not set to ‘UTF-8,’ and is instead set to another encoding. This causes Docker to not recognize the lines of the file correctly, and will therefore not initialize containers/images. Below is a screenshot showing the particular area of VS Code to check for this setting.

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