Index: reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c
===================================================================
--- reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c	(revision 40701)
+++ reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c	(working copy)
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@
 
 	*ppszText = NULL;
 	*pdwTextLen = 0;
+	
+	int ic=0;
 
 	dwSize = GetFileSize(hFile, NULL);
 	if (dwSize == INVALID_FILE_SIZE)
@@ -76,7 +78,11 @@
 	if (!ReadFile(hFile, pBytes, dwSize, &dwSize, NULL))
 		goto done;
 	dwPos = 0;
-
+	/* Converting NULL bytes to spaces */
+	for(ic=0; ic<dwSize; ic++) {
+	    if ( pBytes[ic] == '\0' ) pBytes[ic]=' ';
+	}
+	
 	/* Make sure that there is a NUL character at the end, in any encoding */
 	pBytes[dwSize + 0] = '\0';
 	pBytes[dwSize + 1] = '\0';