# Strange characters appear in notepad

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strange-characters-appear-in-notepad/267166>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 29, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strange-characters-appear-in-notepad/267166 "2008-07-29T10:40:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![lovejeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@lovejeet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lovejeet)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strange-characters-appear-in-notepad/267166/1 "2008-07-29T10:40:04Z")

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Hi All,

I have a code snippet that gets copied from a button with System.setclipboard. When i paste this text into Notepad it shows Square characters where there were enter or spaces. But when i manually paste them into notepad these characters are not seen. Please can anyone help me on this as i have searched previous threads for the same solution.

the code i am trying to paste looks something like this  
\<content\>  
\<data\>  
“Hello”  
\</data\>  
\</content\>

The code is pasted exactly the same into MS-Word but not in Notepad…