asked on 1/13/2016

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...

Windows Server 2012 Windows OS

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Alexandre Takacs

1/17/2016

Muhammad Burhan

1/13/2016

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

Alexandre Takacs

1/13/2016

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

1/13/2016

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

1/13/2016

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 !