PsPad inserts characters into the files

1.
I don't know exactly since when this happens, but whenever I open a file, PsPad appends an empty line to that file. It does not mark the file as changed, though, so the additional line is only saved to the disk if I make other changes to the file.

2. The second problem is more serious, but it does not heppen very often, somethiing like twice every week. Sometimes, a strange character (its always the same character) is inserted at the beginning of a line, most of the time (maybe even only in such a line) in a line that consists of only spaces and a closing bracket "}"

When I make changes in other places of the file and save the file, the saved file contains this garbage character (line 388 in the picture)

It's always the same character, and I think (I am not sure) that happens only with lines that contain a single closing bracket like in the picture. the "ÿ" obviously replaces the first space of the line, because the closing bracket remains aligned with the block above