Leigh Riffel

Ah, so your workaround for the problem is to attach a file to the note rather than have the code in the note. Seems a bit cumbersome, don't you think?

@agsteele What do you mean?

I have this issue as well with all my stored notes. Going back to each note and editing it to simplify formatting or nest it in a code block would be quite time consuming and therefore not an option. When I copy a section of text (code) from a note and paste it into notepad++, it looks correct. It is only when I go to deploy that code that systems choke on it because it has a high ASCII. I can see this by opening the file in a hex editor and seeing what looks like a single space in notepad++ as two hex values C2 A0. The first is the Latin capital letter A with circumflex and the second is a non-breaking space (https://www.ascii-code.com/). In notepad++ if I show all characters, it shows spaces as a dot and this high ASCII remains looking like a space (as it does for high ASCII). My workaround for now is to do a replace in notepad ++, replacing the "fake" space with a real space. Different editors seem to handle the data copied from Evernote differently. Microsoft Word shows the value as a small circle in the uppercase region of the line. Some editors convert the value to a space (Hex 32) or remove them entirely. Pasting the text into a code block does seem to remove these high-ascii if they are at the start of the text, but do not remove it from within the text. Simplify formatting also does not resolve the issue.

You misunderstand. When you upgrade an existing installation, the old version is uninstalled (I'm not talking about an explicit uninstall by the user). That is the phase during which the shortcut is cleaned up. That's how msiexec works. The programs you mention may very well be scheduling the removal after the install. Or they may be doing "bad" things. Unless we can figure out how to safely to an upgrade where we first install and then uninstall, this behavior will not change. We have no plans to reverse engineer how MS stores the shortcuts (yes, I know where they live) and perform undocumented/unsupported actions that are sure to cause issues in future versions of Windows. I don't think htjunkie misunderstands at all. It seems you are saying that it is the MS installers fault that it works this way and Evernote doesn't care enough about this problem to resolve it. That is a valid answer, just not the one we were hoping for. Apparently there are quite a few other companies that went the extra mile to honor the user's system despite the bug in the MS installer.