I have two computers. Both running WinXP SP2 (I don't really know ho similar they are beyond that). I am running MS Visual C# 2008 express edition on both and that's what I'm currently using to program.

I made an application that loads in an XML file and displays the contents in a DataGridView.

The first line of my xml file is:

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

```

...and really... it's utf-8 (at least according to MS VS C# when I just open the file there).

I compile the code and run it on one computer, and the contents of my DataGridView appears normal. No funny characters. I compile the code and run it on the other computer (or just take the published version from computer #1 and install it on computer #2 - I tried this both ways) and in the datagridview, where there are line breaks/new lines in the xml file, I see funny square characters.

I'm a novice to encoding... so the only thing I really tried to troubleshoot was to use that same program to write the contents of my xml to a new xml file (but I'm actually writing it to a text file, with the xml tags in it) since the default writing to a text file seems to be utf-8. Then I read this new file back in to my program. I get the same results.

I don't know what else to do or how to troubleshoot this or what I might fundamentally be doing wrong in the first place.

-Adeena