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Server 2012 handling of non unicode files

I'm having an issue with "plain ASCII" file on a Server 2012R2 server.

I have two users opening the exact same file using notepad in two different sessions and they have a different representation:

I have checked their "language" control panel and they have the exact same settings. This is the same machine (RDS server)... just two different users...

I muss say that I'm stomped...

Muhammad Burhan

if you configured shadow copies, try to retrieve any previous version of that file from there for troubleshooting.

Alexandre Takacs

ASKER

Sorry the file was just generated and put on a local drive (on the RDS machine).

It is the very same file opened once by user A then by user B.

So the issue is about some code page or other similar thing pertaining to the representation / interpretation of ASCII > 127 by the OS. That's ooooold stuff I honestly don't remember... but definitely not a corrupted file !

Gauthier

Well that's odd, however, the file is clearly NOT ascii, it is UTF-8
USER A is opening it correctly as UTF8 and USER B is opening it as ANSI hence the UTF-8 code for é is shown.
Can you check HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad
and the shell open command

Alexandre Takacs

ASKER

Well that's odd, however, the file is clearly NOT ascii, it is UTF-8
USER A is opening it correctly as UTF8 and USER B is opening it as ANSI hence the UTF-8 code for é is shown.

Ok - interesting !