Comments appears weird

[SasStatistics]

Looking at some old files, the text (comments) appear very weird, I do not know why this happend or if it is possible to "get back" the original text? 

Example on how it looks like: 

The letters involved are of the form: Å, Ä, Ö  (Swedish). 

[andreas_lds]

Could be an encoding problem. So:

• Which tool created the files?
• Which tool is used right now?

I had a similar problem: code file created by SAS EG using "unicode" when saving the program. When i opened the file with SAS Studio (set to utf-8) everything was ok, but after saving EG doesn't recognise the encoding properly. Reason: SAS Studio removes the bom (byte order mark) that EG relies on.

[SasStatistics]

To my knowledge it is manually typed in SAS EG. SAS EG is used right now aswell.

Any possible repairs?

[andreas_lds]

If the file has been corrupted, that the only way to repair it is replacing the "bad" chars manually. Maybe SAS-Tech-Support has an idea, i would contact them .

[ballardw]

What FONT is your Editor currently using?

Character values, if ASCII, do not have standard appearance for numeric values above 126 between fonts designed by different folks.