There is no notepad conspiracy

Apparently there is a Notepad conspiracy where it hides certain text from the user. The problem is that it isn’t hiding it, it’s just guessing the character set incorrectly. Raymond explains things a lot more eloquently than I. It seems to be a similar problem in the gnome notepad (gedit) utility – when it can’t guess the character set it puts up a D’oh, I can’t interpret this file message.