DOS Style Text
(View Menu)


Unfortunately DOS and Windows programs handle international characters differently. Wilbur always assumes files beginning with non text characters have been created with Windows programs like MS Word. Unfortunately for pure text files it is difficult to tell how they might have been created and hence this switch. It normally tracks the corresponding setting in the the index dialog box, but can be used to switch how the contents pane displays a file.

Note that this has no effect on how the files were indexed. A file which has been indexed assuming Windows text handling can be viewed and searched locally with DOS text handling, but a global search would not find words containing international characters if the file did indeed contain DOS style international characters.


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