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Problem is whatever truth you spoke was irrelevant or incorrect.
I have described a very specific problem for which you have no solution, for which reason you (1) referred me to language and font settings, which are ok (2) to a utility to reset to defaults which aside from destroying my customization will definitely not solve the problem, because neither computer is set to defaults and by setting one to default leaves the other still different -- unless you mean setting both to default, which makes no sense whatsoever.
So pls. If you want to leave, leave. I am looking for better ideas.
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.
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.
Last edited by oao; 25 Oct 2017 at 19:37.
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.
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.