Problem with Rescued .rtf file

Recuva
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Hello, I recently used Recuva to rescue an .rtf file that was said to be in an excellent state. However, when I opened it I got encoding like

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I tried opening it in Notepad and using Microsoft Word's "Open and Repair" function but it did not change. Please help me to figure out what happened and how to repair the damage,
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Recuva will just copy whatever data is in the clusters allocated (or formally allocated) to that file, whatever that data is. A state of Excellent means that at this time the clusters are not overwritten by any other live file. Some or all of the clusters could have been overwritten by a file which has subsequently been deleted.

If Word or Notepad won't open the file then it is probably beyond saving. You could run a deep scan to see if there are any copies of this file but the odds are not in your favour..

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My memory may be wrong,

BUT what I remember from when I used XP was that NotePad could not use RTF files, I but WordPad could.

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It's not that it can't open in Microsoft Word and Notepad, it's just that it still displays the same encoding language.