diff --git a/reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c b/reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c
index 6ca1907dbd6..ed1015d04e9 100644
--- a/reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c
+++ b/reactos/base/applications/notepad/text.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ BOOL ReadText(HANDLE hFile, LPWSTR *ppszText, DWORD *pdwTextLen, int *piEncoding
 {
 	DWORD dwSize;
 	LPBYTE pBytes = NULL;
-	LPCWSTR pszText;
+	LPWSTR pszText;
 	LPWSTR pszAllocText = NULL;
 	DWORD dwPos, i;
 	DWORD dwCharCount;
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ BOOL ReadText(HANDLE hFile, LPWSTR *ppszText, DWORD *pdwTextLen, int *piEncoding
 		/* fall through */
 
 	case ENCODING_UNICODE:
-		pszText = (LPCWSTR) &pBytes[dwPos];
+		pszText = (LPWSTR) &pBytes[dwPos];
 		dwCharCount = (dwSize - dwPos) / sizeof(WCHAR);
 		break;
 
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ BOOL ReadText(HANDLE hFile, LPWSTR *ppszText, DWORD *pdwTextLen, int *piEncoding
 			else
 				adwEolnCount[EOLN_LF]++;
 			break;
+
+		case '\0':
+			pszText[i] = ' ';
+			break;
 		}
 	}