MSI Log files filled with extra space characters.

[MRKiscaden]

For some strange reason, some of our users have an extra whitespace character between each real character in their MSI log files. For example:

= = =   L o g g i n g   s t a r t e d :   9 / 1 1 / 2 0 0 8     1 6 : 1 2 : 3 0   = = = 
 
 A c t i o n   s t a r t   1 6 : 1 2 : 3 0 :   I N S T A L L . 
 
 A c t i o n   s t a r t   1 6 : 1 2 : 3 0 :   V e r i f y A d m i n . 

Any insight on what causes this problem? I'm stumped.

[RobertDickau]

I think MSI log files are Unicode text files, so a text viewer expecting an ANSI file might display the contents that way... For example, using the Command Prompt command type everything.log shows the spaces.