How to retrieve Unicode text from Notepad file saved as ANSI text file

Question

I accidentally saved a file written in Greek as ANSI instead of Unicode. I had so much stuff written there, notes for my upcoming college exams and I really really need them. Now everything is ''???''

Is there a way to retrieve the file?

Answer 1

The data has been lost. Characters that your system's ANSI charset does not support were converted to ?, and you can't undo that. There is no recovering characters that were converted to ?.

Notepad should have warned you about the data loss before it allowed the file to be saved.