Feb 14, 2017 · Follow these steps with Notepad++. 1- Copy the original text. 2- In Notepad++, open new file, change Encoding -> pick an encoding you think the original text follows. Try as …

File conversion encoding is about how characters and symbols are represented in a document. Different systems and applications use different encoding methods, making it difficult to open …

Plain text documents, which are files saved in the .txt format, may become corrupted due to incorrect encoding. Corrupt files will show intelligible symbols instead of coherent words. This …

Oct 1, 2023 · When I open my Notepad documents the text appears in a strange coded format such as this.: ( How can I convert it back to English?) The document has been saved in the …

Oct 17, 2021 · Changing the encoding on that file will not convert the file, that file is now somehow a binary file, it no longer contains human readable text. Right click that file and select …

Jan 28, 2012 · To work around this behavior, click Cancel in the File Conversion dialog box. When you do this, the file will open without converting to text. Then, open the document in Word. To …

Try sending yourself a .doc file that you know you can read and open and then try to open it.

Apr 9, 2017 · Plain text files don't contain extra hidden information. A wrong encoding can cause problems, but if your editor loads assuming a byte-per-character encoding and that encoding …

Oct 14, 2009 · It's a double-encoded text. The original is in Windows-936, then some application assumed the text is in ISO-8869-1 and encoded the result to UTF-8. Here is an example how …

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