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Using TextPad 8.1.2 (64-bit Edition).

I have a file which is... approximately Windows-1252 encoded (the correct encoding isn't important for this issue).
Opening the file in Binary mode to display what's really there, I see:

D0: 69 63 65 22 20 22 22 48 61 76 6C ED 9F 6B E0 76 20 ice" "Havlà...

Can you be more specific - does this happen with just a few documents? If so, which ones?

Create a new document just containing the text "Hello world". What happens when you print it?

Just in case somebody else has this problem:

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Running "Find in Files" with the "Binary files" tickbox turned off still seems to check binary files: I get warnings about "line too long" from .dll and .exe files.