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Not sure how to explain this or how/when it happened, and it's not a problem with Textpad, but here goes.

I've installed TextPad on a bunch of different machines at my work environment, and what I've recently noticed is on some (not all) of the installs, when I use TextPad I will see extended ASCII characters in a particular file. Not really sure how this happened or why, but if I open up the same file on another TextPad install instead of seeing the extended ASCII character, I'll see a block or what looks like bolded pipes for certain characters. The thing is, I actually don't want to see the extended ASCII and much prefer the display of the latter method. What's really weird, if I open up the file in Notepad on a machine where it seems to be displaying extended characters, it shows up with the extended characters in it as well, so I know it wasn't just a TextPad setting that I accidentally turned on.

Any ideas on how to turn this "off" or what exactly happened? Was it a Windows thing that got installed somehow? I only need access to US English language files, etc., if that helps.

Possibly the used font, or the 'Script'. Press Alt+Enter and open the 'Font' tab to check those.

Thanks, I've just tried that. I'm Using Courier New 10 on all systems (both screen and print), only thing I notice different is that on the machines where it displays standard ASCII , if I press Alt-Enter and go to font, on the machines where I'll get a square type box or sometimes bolded looking pipe characters, the only "Script" that is selectable is Western. The machines where the TextPad installs are displaying the extended ASCII are showing other selectable script types besides Western, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic, etc.

I think it has something to do with other language packs being installed and then causing Windows to display something greater then standard ASCII?

Not really sure... just bugs me.