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Timothy310
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Aug 03, 2024

Text files are opening in garbled format

I recently reinstalled Windows a week ago, and since then, I've been experiencing an issue where every .txt file I try to open in Notepad or Wordpad appears garbled. Is there a solution to this problem?

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  • In Notepad, click File > Open, select All Files (.), then manually set the encoding to UTF-8 or ANSI to open the text file correctly.

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