Microsoft has updated Notepad, its legendary text editor, with something that’s been on the wishlist of most Windows-using coders — the ability to view and edit text files created on UNIX ...

Text documents created in Unix, Linux, or macOS use different line ending characters. When you try and open them in Notepad you see a garbled mess of text like that shown above.

Notepad is still technically able to open documents created in Unix, Linux and macOS although doing so results in a garbled mess that's largely unusable. Now after 30+ years, Microsoft is finally ...

Opening a Unix text file in Windows produces a solid block of text without any whitespace. ... Always had to open the *.txt file with wordpad, save, then i oculd open with Notepad no problem ...

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.

Traditionally, Notepad has only supported text files which use Windows End of Line characters, and if these are missing – Unix, Linux and macOS text files don’t use them – then everything ...

Text documents created in Unix, Linux, or macOS use different line ending characters. When you try and open them in Notepad you see a garbled mess of text like that shown above.