I have not had this happen to me. But check your language settings, both in the operating system and with regard to which braille translation table is being used, especially if you are inputting your material from the braille keyboard. There are a number of character sets, and most of the non-English ones involve Unicode, or two-byte characters. If you try to save files that include some Unicode characters, Notepad (at least in XP) is going to ask you how you want to save your file. The native character set in much of modern Windows is not ASCII but unicode, so it's not surprising that this might come up. This is about all I can tell you on the subject.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress 202-707-0535 http://www.loc.gov/nls The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS. From: BX [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Warning! Hi Chip, Maybe, but one would have to explain why when I turn off the Braille option I can use Notepad to make data files, But, But, could not until that was done... My professor kept saying he could not compile my C++ code because line after line of nulls were coming out of the file. Yet when using Notepad it looked fine and compiled using Express, where he was using another compiler. Stay tune, for I got the disk for latest upgrade and may have to go install that instead of using downloaded upgrades. Windoweyes upgrades... Sincerely Bruce Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:15 AM Subject: RE: Warning! Hi Bruce, I’m sure GW will also tell you, but turning on braille does not do anything to your notepad or any other type of files. It simply looks for a connected braille display, and if found, will send information to it. Chip From: BX [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 2:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Warning! Hi, I need to warn anyone who selects Braille when installing any upgrades, it goes in and turns on Braille every where and changes Notepad text files by inserting null characters into each file created. I checked thinking it would give Braille support but did not expect it to check every check box in every set file... I could not figure out why when sending text files to my professors they could not run or compile the files and they had scores of errors with null characters and such. I think this is a very bad flaw for Windoweyes. Now I need to know how to shut it off, or will I have to go to each set file and shut it off, for when doing it from the notification area it did not change the setting when opening up Notepad for it was still checked. So, this has to be fixed! Sincerely Bruce A. Babcock
