On 6/14/2018 10:09 PM, malone wrote:

I use Irfanview a lot and sometimes I need to view or edit the
i_view.ini file. Using Windows 8 and earlier this was easy. Just open it
with Notepad, make the edits if necessary, save and close it and
everything works fine.

Things are a bit different using Windows 10. Opening the i_view64.ini
file one sees a mass of what look like Chinese characters. Despite the
font being set at Consolas Regular which is the default for Notepad.

Opening the i_view64.ini file created on the Windows 10 machine on a
Windows 8 machine and it's all Chinese
Opening the i_view64.ini file created on the Windows 8 machine on a
Windows 10 machine and it's all ok.

Both computers are using the most recent version of Irfanview (4.51 64
bit). Winver 1709

Can anyone explain this rather strange behaviour? And, even, could
anyone using Irfanview with Windows 10 have a quick look and see whether
you can read the .ini file opened with notepad?

It could just be a difference between the fonts in use on the two
machines or rather one might be missing.

Open a copy of both versions of notepad.
Note that I did not say to open the ini file yet.
Left click on Format and then click on Font.
You want both to have the same Font, like Consolas, and Script settings,
as in Western.
Now open both .ini files and see if they both look normal.

If not, copy the .ini file from the one that looks normal to a flash
drive. Then on the W10 machine see if notepad can open the file on the
flash drive and if it looks normal. If it does try reversing the
proceedure, as in copy the garbled .ini to the flash drive and see if
the W7 machine can open it cleanly.