Shoutbox

Thanks to all that have responded.

Yep... the unicode is the issue.  I do a lot of work with plain text files in an industrial programing environment and the editor that I have been using for years is not unicode friendly. (For those interested: Programmers File Editor 32 v1.01 [PFE32])

I verified that with NotePad, EditPad Lite or other similarly Unicode aware editors, my "extra black square characters" disappear.

Now, since I deal with a lot of TXT files related to my work and would prefer to continue to use my PFE32 - I need to see if I can modify the extension that Messenger Plus uses when decrypting the logs.  If I could change it to .log or something, then I could associate EditPad Lite to .log extensions and reset my PFE32 to handle my regular .txt files.

Thanks again everyone,

Brad "MacManHere"