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[EchoNoise]

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[LLXX]

Only happens on Vista. I know, their notepad is broken.

[Jito463]

Happens in XP x64 version as well. Very strange.

[oldwolf]

Happens in XP SP1 too

[EchoNoise]

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[Camarade_Tux]

Only happens on Vista. I know, their notepad is broken.

Happens on all unicode versions of notepad

And in Notepad2 too.

Which is pretty easy to understand since I think it uses the same APIs as windows's notepad to display text.

[WolfX2]

happens on XP SP2 too

[EchoNoise]

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[Camarade_Tux]

Oh, this doesn't happens anymore in Notepad2!

Hum, what is XVI32 doing in my taskbar ?

Also,

And this never happens in Notepad++ which can also be used to restore your text.

PS: notepad2 doesn't use the same API than windows's notepad. That was a Big mistake.

Edited June 28, 2006 by Camarade_Tux

[EchoNoise]

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[Camarade_Tux]

This specific sequence should be a header. Right ?

[LLXX]

This specific sequence should be a header. Right ?

Yes, Unicode text files should have FFFE as the first word. The programmer forgot to add a check for that, and instead assumed Unicode.

[clavicle]

Hahaha, thats a great find !

Indeed it is great find and strange too

[SourceCode]

heh, that's strange.

it's not a problem with the API itself though, because i use that same API in another app and it handles the file like normal.

[Camarade_Tux]

Thanks to a problem with an AutoHotKey script I think I found some explanations.

The FF FE sequence is used to determine the endianness of the file. It is a BOM.

If you read wikipedia's articles you know endianness is hardware-dependent.

Now, do you think Notepad, Notepad2... could run on something else than little-endian machines such as Intel's processors ?

So there is no need to bother with "FF FE", it will always be little-endian.

Then, Notepad++ is based on ScinTilla, and ScinTilla can run on win32 and machines that support GTK+. So it can include big-endian machines. Thus, it needs this FF FE string.

If you try to open a unicode text file created on a machine with a SPARC processor (SunOS) with Notepad/Notepad2, you will probably have troubles reading it.