Windows 10: How can I select a specific column file names of text from the notepad content to copy over...

Have been able to get a file listing in text form that was placed in notepad. There are several columns e.g. size, date, file name, etc. Want to just copy the file names over to word.

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Notepad showing gibberish for specific file content only!

To verify that this is strictly a notepad bug, you can open a new empty notepad, open this file in wordpad where it is readable, copy-paste all contents to your empty notepad and save as ANSI. When you reopen with notepad, it will show gibberish! So it seems
that notepad will read the specific content and try to open it as UTF8. If you change a single character, or even omit a space, the file is read properly in notepad!

 

Wordpad ? Notepad ++ ? Why like this ?

Turn word wrap off in Notepad and it works fine for script editing. Turn word wrap on and it works fine for text editing. Yes, it is very simple software so it isn't really suitible for complex file operations (find/replace, column select, binary files etc.) but it works great for batch files or touching up some source code.

 

Notepad showing gibberish for specific file content only!

Hello,

I am experiencing a very weird notepad issue... I have an application that generates tabular data in text files and all files normally look OK in Notepad. However, one file seems to show Chinese characters, as if it was encoded in UTF-8-bom, which is not
the case!

Note that if I open the file in other editors (e.g. excel, notepad++) everything looks fine.

To make things even weirder, if I open the file in notepad++ and change the content by a single character (e.g. add a space somewhere), it is then readable in notepad! But if I delete that character and save again, it becomes again not readable...

It seems that notepad is somehow assessing the wrong encoding, based on some random evaluation of the content, or MD5 hash or something! Is this even possible?

I am at a complete loss here.

Kostas

PS1: I tried opening the file in different computers with different OS (win7/win10) and the problem exists everywhere.

PS2: I'd be happy to attach the text file, but not sure where to do this.