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When Notepad reads a window document

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by hanan1981

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When I open a document file in notepad, I see a group of strange characters. What is the problem?

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by dklippert

Notepad is a "text" editor. You are seeing not only the words, but the formatting/and printer codes. Some of these codes do not have an equivalent alpha character, so you will see some odd looking symbols.

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