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).
Could be an encoding problem. So:
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.
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 .
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.
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