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| AndersJ:
I have numerous text files created over the years. I am in Sweden, so I use a handful of swedish characters encoded over 0x7F. This has never been a problem, in various computer generations. Until now, that is. A brand new Dell, with Windows 10/64 cannot properly open my *.txt files in Notepad or Wordpad. All swedish characters are shown as bold question marks. New text is entered properly, and displays correctly. It is the old characters that are incorrect. Does anyone know what is going on here? How can I fix this? |
| 0xdeadbeef:
I'd guess your text files were edited in an ANSI character set with Swedish locale settings. I would think you just need to convert them to UTF-8. A proper text editor like Notepad++ should be able to help you out. You open your text files, select the correct ANSI encoding (Encoding->Character Sets) and finally convert the files to UTF-8 (Encoding->Convert to UTF-8). |
| AndersJ:
I have many files of various kinds, that have worked well in many computers over the years, and still do. Now I purchase this ONE exception, that cannot display the files correctly. I am looking for an explanation of why this suddenly happens. After that I want to fix the problem in the NEW machine. Please focus on that, rather than suggesting I convert all files, possibly creating new problems for each and every person and computer that use them. |
| grizewald:
Install Notepad++. Not only will it view your text files properly, it will let you change the encoding (which is probably ISO-8859-1) to UTF-8 (which I believe might be the default encoding in Win 10, but don't quote me on that as I run Linux). Notepad++ is very flexible when it comes to encodings and lets you freely change from one to another and will also show you how a file is currently encoded. |
| Masa:
You probably have same problem as this guy: https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/110704-unreadable-non-ansi-characters-notepad.html Is your new Windows 10 in English or Swedish? |
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