Garmin Text Document for geocache_visits

[+Goldenwattle]

Has anyone else had this problem. It started with a bulk load two times ago. Now there is a space in between the letters, where before there wasn't. This a nuisance, because at times when I have loaded some caches individually, I like to copy and paste the GC number to do a quick search for found caches, so as to delete it from the Garmin. I can't do a fast copy paste search with this, as the spaces in between the number and letters interfere with this, unless I laboriously remove the spaces. What change did this?

 

[+baer2006]

The geocache_visits.txt on my own Garmin is in "Little Endian" UTF-16 format, and I guess that's true for all of these files. However, your screenshot shows "UTF-8" in the lower right, so your text editor thinks it's looking at an UTF-8 encoded file. Such a mismatch could definitely lead I to the effect you see.

 

That said, I cannot say how to fix this in you case, because it depends a lot on the unknown root cause. Is the file corrupted in some way (e.g. the initial UTF-16 LE marker bytes might have been lost)? Or is the file fine, and it's a bug of the editor?

[+Goldenwattle]

8 hours ago, baer2006 said:

The geocache_visits.txt on my own Garmin is in "Little Endian" UTF-16 format, and I guess that's true for all of these files. However, your screenshot shows "UTF-8" in the lower right, so your text editor thinks it's looking at an UTF-8 encoded file. Such a mismatch could definitely lead I to the effect you see.

 

That said, I cannot say how to fix this in you case, because it depends a lot on the unknown root cause. Is the file corrupted in some way (e.g. the initial UTF-16 LE marker bytes might have been lost)? Or is the file fine, and it's a bug of the editor?

All I know, is that the page used to read correctly on my commuter. It started two loads ago. I ignored that one thinking there might be a freak mistake. However, the new load had the same result.