The Old New Thing

Some files come up strange in Notepad

March 24, 2004 Mar 24, 2004 03/24/04

Raymond Chen

David Cumps discovered that certain text files come up strange in Notepad. The reason is that Notepad has to edit files in a variety of encodings, and when its back against the wall, sometimes it's forced to guess. Here's the file "Hello" in various encodings: This is the traditional ANSI encoding. This is the Unicode (little-...