Windows 10: Notepad: Inserting Symbols work on one computer but not another

Discus and support Notepad: Inserting Symbols work on one computer but not another in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Reset your Font Cache on the one laptop that you are have this problem. If that does not work maybe The Notepad Engineering Deportment in Redmond can... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by oao, Oct 20, 2017.

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  1. JOSEY WALES
    Josey Wales Win User

    Notepad: Inserting Symbols work on one computer but not another


    Reset your Font Cache on the one laptop that you are have this problem. If that does not work maybe The Notepad Engineering Deportment in Redmond can help you. Use Notepad ++ it is a far superior program. That being said I am done here.
     
    Josey Wales, Oct 25, 2017
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  2. OAO
    oao Win User

    Gets weirder: The font in Notepad is Courier New. The only font that displays the symbols correctly is Lucida Sans Unicode Regular. Any other font displays them as squares.

    On my second computer Courier displays the symbols correctly.

    So what we seem to have here is either (1) Courier font is not the same on both computers or (2) it is not treated the same on both computers.

    In either case it is weird, because Courier WAS working on both computers and there were no changes.
     
    oao, Oct 25, 2017
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  3. BRO67
    bro67 Win User
    When you do a save, do you do a "Save As" or "Save" in Notepad? If you do the first, look at the box labeled "Encoding". The answer is in front of you when you "Save as" the file type. Search engines are a great tool when it comes to very simple solutions. I also vote for Notepad ++, because it has a lot more features than you will ever get from something that Microsoft needs to send off to its cemetery of dead programs.
     
    bro67, Oct 25, 2017
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  4. OAO
    oao Win User

    Notepad: Inserting Symbols work on one computer but not another

    I saved the files as UTF-8, otherwise the symbols would have been lost and Notepad would have never displayed them. But ut did in both computers. Now one does display them with the Courier font and the other only displays them with Lucida Unicode.

    I can't see how this could happen except in one of the two ways I mentioned, but if so I dk how to fix it.
     
    oao, Apr 5, 2018
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