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Originally Posted by cybmole
Opening the txt in word looked clean...
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That's when copy and pasting into notepad++ then saving that as utf-8 would have worked.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
but after saving it as filtered Html & then reimporting & reconverting, the heuristic engine did not clean up line feeds like it did for txt.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
so the non-geeky explanation is that my text was in eastern euopean encoding ?
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Yep. Older versions of Windows (might still be true for 7) set the default encoding based on your language selection. So if someone in Greece had saved that file then the encoding would have been automatically set to the one associated with their language choice. Even if the document isn't in Greek.