File Content Conversion (receiver) and special characters

Hi all,
I have a scenario that has a file receiver channel with content conversion. The record structure in the flat file is field-width delimited (hence no field separator) and the parameter 'fieldLengthTooShortHandling' has the value 'Cut' because the receiving system needs only specific widths for the fields. Hence if the field value exceeds the length permitted, the extra characters are clipped.
I observed that some characters are not handled properly while creating the text file. For example, one of the fields contained a "minus" character (not the hyphen). The flat file was created successfully. I opened the file in notepad and found that the "minus" character has appeared correctly and the column count in that record was as expected. However when the same file was opened in Textpad, the minus character was displayed as â | |  ('a' with caret, bar, bar) So, all the fields after this field were shifted ahead by 2 characters and hence the total column count of the record had gone beyond the actual one.
All this started due to the error reported by the receiver system which processes the flat file. Due to shift of characters in the flat file, the processing failed. Moreover that system cannot process the special characters (like minus or non-Latin accented characters etc.) So although there is no issue in XI interface as such, I just want to know if anyone has more informtion on why the characters are displayed differently as mentioned above.
Regards,
Shankar

Define data type like
order_recordset
order_row 1..unbound
f1
f2
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Message Protcol : File content select, then below you got additional parameters.
there you fill
Document name : Your sender message type.
Document namespace : Give your scenario namespace
Recordset name : order_recordset ( mentioned in the data type)
Recordset structure : order_row, *
Name Value
order_recordset.fieldSeparator : 'nl'
order_row.fieldSeparator : ,
order_row.endSeparator : 'nl'
based on your text file you fill the above parameter values.

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