does anyone here use abiword for word processing?

[CTyankee]

I just tried to open a document I had written in abiword and it appeared in gobbledegook. At the top it said <?xm1 version="1.0" encoding "UTF-8"

WTF is going on? This never happened before and not all of my documents open to this bizarro stuff...

I don't know what is going on, since I am technically a stone ager...:shrug:

[blogslut]

1. What file format was the document?

I've used abiword and never really had a problem with it.

Were you maybe trying to open a file format that it didn't recognize?

[CTyankee]

2. I think it was Notepad. I've had the file and accessed and modified it

for about 8 months continuously...never had a problem. It's always been there since I created it. It's almost as if I inadvertently tripped a switch somewhere...perhaps last week when I was trying to create a document, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it was that I did wrong...

[blogslut]

3. Hmm

Well, if I'm understanding you correctly, the font you mentioned is UTF-8 which is Unicode - which should be readable in a .txt documat through almost any software/word processing program.

I dunno. Maybe select the whole thing and change the font?

[CTyankee]

5. Thanks. I'll try that and I'll let you know if it works!

[CTyankee]

7. OK, I tried but nothing happened. It was listed as a text document and I

tried to save it as a rich text document, because I didn't know any better. Should I have chosen Unicode in the drop down box?

I'm sorry to be so dense...

[blogslut]

8. .rtf format shouldn't produce gobbledygook from a .txt file

And Unicode shouldn't either. I'm kind of stumped.

[CTyankee]

9. Well, if anybody can screw up on the computer, it is moi.

Iprobably did something dreadful...I just wish I could figure out how this could happen...

[Lucinda]

4. Could it have been saved as another file type the last time you successfully modified it?

Just a thought...

[CTyankee]

6. I don't think so. I just hit the usual save button...never a problem in the past.