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Originally posted by Pink
Hi,
if we saved an msn conversation in a txt but after opening the file the words are not clear,all the sentences are question marks like this:
???says:
???????
??? says:
????????
?????says:
??? ??? ??
first saved the conversation by selecting "save as" from the file menu but changed the type from "RTF Document" to "Text Document"
then clicked "save" again before closing the conversation box and close the msn then open the notepad file and discover the error! I think the error was because of the second step which is clicking "save"
This isn't an error or bug.
You shouldn't change the character formatting of text from unicode to ASCII if the text contains extended characters.
That is what happened when you changed the format from UTF/Unicode format to "Text document" (which is plain ASCII)...
The questions marks are there because ASCII can not show the extended character set of the unicode text.
If you saved the logs over the original logs, there is no way at all to turn it back. You actually lost all the extended codes.... If you're in luck you've also enabled the conversation logging and Messenger logged the conversations on its own too (check your chat history folder).
You should have choosen "
Unicode Text Document" from the save-as menu....
- ASCII are the characters with ascii code 0 to 255 (like used in English and most other Wenstern languages)
- Unicode are the characters used in languages like Chinese, Arabic, etc... they have ascii codes bigger than 255 and thus need more bytes to be saved. (hence also sometimes the name "double byte" character set).
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