diff --git a/base/applications/notepad/text.c b/base/applications/notepad/text.c
index 0025ddf9dac..86b0fa78c37 100644
--- a/base/applications/notepad/text.c
+++ b/base/applications/notepad/text.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ BOOL IsTextNonZeroASCII(const void *pText, DWORD dwSize)
 
 ENCODING AnalyzeEncoding(const char *pBytes, DWORD dwSize)
 {
-    INT flags = IS_TEXT_UNICODE_STATISTICS | IS_TEXT_UNICODE_REVERSE_STATISTICS;
+    INT flags = IS_TEXT_UNICODE_STATISTICS;
 
     if (dwSize <= 1 || IsTextNonZeroASCII(pBytes, dwSize))
         return ENCODING_ANSI;
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ ENCODING AnalyzeEncoding(const char *pBytes, DWORD dwSize)
     if (IsTextUnicode(pBytes, dwSize, &flags))
         return ENCODING_UTF16LE;
 
-    if ((flags & IS_TEXT_UNICODE_REVERSE_MASK) && !(flags & IS_TEXT_UNICODE_ILLEGAL_CHARS))
+    flags = IS_TEXT_UNICODE_STATISTICS | IS_TEXT_UNICODE_REVERSE_STATISTICS;
+    IsTextUnicode(pBytes, dwSize, &flags);
+    if (((flags & IS_TEXT_UNICODE_REVERSE_MASK) == IS_TEXT_UNICODE_REVERSE_STATISTICS))
         return ENCODING_UTF16BE;
 
     /* is it UTF-8? */