nfo files (using the box-drawing characters, etc)? Does the crash happen when you name a plain text file blah.nfo and open it as described? Does it happen with ascii-art-based. nfo file? The thread you linked has some that are just plain text (similar to a readme file), and some that are fancy ASCII-art files. Other pieces of information that might be useful: The best thing to do whenever asking for help in this forum, especially for something that might be version-dependent, is to include the output from ? > Debug Info > Copy debug info into clipboard and paste it in your question (or in a response, in this case).

And sometimes, we find that the person asking the question had turned off auto-updates (accidentally or otherwise unknowingly), so was even farther behind in version number, but because there hadn’t been a version push, they thought they were on the newest version. But if you have v7.8.2 and click ? > Update Notepad++, it won’t download an update, because the developer hasn’t yet (as of Jan 27) set the flag on the v7.8.3 release to push it to the auto-installer (it’s usually a 1-2wk delay, to make sure there are no critical regression bugs before forcing it on everyone). The problem is, the latest (as of Jan 16) is v7.8.3.

Unfortunately, that’s not as descriptive as you might think. I’m using the latest 32-bit version of Notepad++ Except you know how a 32bit dll gets build/compiled and what needs to be changed in order to make it work.With what suggested (trying with only the hex editor plugin)… It will show output like this: As you can see here, the arrow signs indicating the tab and the dot signs indicating the spaces. How can I see non-ascii characters in Notepad++? How do you show spaces in Notepad++?įrom the Menu Bar of Notepad++, go to View -> Show Symbol and enable the option Show White Space and TAB. Be sure to tick off “Wrap around” if you want to loop in the document for all non-ASCII characters. In Notepad++, if you go to menu Search → Find characters in range → Non-ASCII Characters (128-255) you can then step through the document to each non-ASCII character. Where can I find Unicode characters in Notepad++? However, there are many free or open-source hex editor for Windows. If you have a text-based hex file, then it can be opened with text editors like notepad. Hex files can be stored in the text format or binary format.

Windows do not have any pre-installed hex editor in their operating systems.

Hex viewer notepad++