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Author: Oscar Strik (University of Amsterdam)
Email: Oscar dot Strik at student dot uva dot nl
Date: 2004-10-16 10:59:09
Subject: Re: notepad & tags (probably a stupid question)
> It sounds like WordPad isn't opening the file as plain text. It must be noticing the tags and entities, and doing some processing on them as it opens the file.
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> I've never used WordPad, so I don't know if there's some way to say "I really want to open this as plain text; please don't try to be helpful." Are there any options in the Open dialog? Is there an "Open As" command? Is there a preference you can change?
Well, I've just opened my first page of the Cleasby document (b0051) in Wordpad and it displays just fine (tags and ampersand entries present). I am using XP at the moment by the way. I did not see a special "open as..." entry anywhere, and it makes no difference whether I select "text file" or "text file with ms-dos arrangement". They both work fine.
A solution that might work is using NOTEpad instead of WORDpad. NotePad generally has no capabilities in attempting to display HTML tags, even though signs like ð and such can appear. Perhaps it will work if you open the text in Notepad?
I must say I am baffled by this problem. I have never experienced Wordpad or Notepad converting such codes.
greetings,
Oscar