symbols and trash in logs

[MadamButterfly]

When I open log files either in notepad or the in-client text editor I'm getting trash for something.
lines of ==== will either black blocks or some weird AE symbol.

Same goes for quotation marks. Please address this because editting logs to fix that is tedious. Or if there is a fix, tell me how to do it.

Thanks.

Examples:

In-client text editor: ––– (all the way across the screen) this should have been –––––––––––(dashes)
In windows notepad the same dashed line showed up as ..the file that is attached.
test log.txt
it might show the dashes correctly in the log but the " still are just black boxes.

[talvo]

It looks like you're playing on a game using some form of unicode, but it's one that doesn't negotiate it and you haven't changed the starting encoding in the world's settings. Check what the game is actually outputting with their admin to make sure you select the right one, then go to Configure World -> Connection and change Starting Encoding appropriately (if you want to experiment, try utf-8 first of all, that's the most likely one being used).

[MadamButterfly]

The staff on the world are no help. I just leave it as default and then have word translate the file to utf-8 and everything shows right.

Same game now, I'm finding if I get booted and reconnect, if I don't close Potato entirely I end up seeing multiples of the same line in the log. Is this an encoding issue too?