On 2018-06-15 16:35, “😵 Good Guy 😵� wrote:

What has Irfanview got to do with Notepad?Â* IrfanView creates a binary
file while Notepad reads and writes text files.

Irfanview stores its settings in a .ini file (i_view.ini). Irfanview's
..ini file can be edited with Notepad. That should be obvious.

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* Irfanview stores its settings in a .ini file (i_view.ini).
* Irfanview's .ini file can be edited with Notepad.

.ini files are text files so you need to tell us how are you opening
the file?Â* The correct way is to right-click on the file and choose
"Open With" and from the list of Apps select Notepad.

In this case, the OP should use Notepad's file|open and *manually*
select the correct encoding. Notepad is not automatically detecting the
correct encoding. This is evident because the .ini file contents looked
like Chinese in Notepad.

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* The OP should use Notepad's file|open and *manually* select the
correct encoding, because…
* Notepad is not automatically detecting the correct encoding.
o This is evident because the .ini file contents looked like
Chinese in Notepad.


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