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 ...

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.

For many, Notepad is good precisely because it's a no-frills text editor that doesn't have many features except displaying plain text. Because of that, rich text formatting could actually disrupt ...