For more than three decades Notepad couldn't display all text files correctly. Now thanks to a new update, it can finally will. Previously, Notepad wasn't able to find the correct line endings.

Simply navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad] and set fWindowsOnlyEOL to 1. After that, non-Windows text files will continue to be displayed in garbled form.

A BOM is Unicode character that some text editors and program add to the beginning of a file to indicate that the contents use Unicode encoding. This is an optional character, though, and some ...