wierd notepad bug ------- try it out

[tehHinjew]

Open Notepad and type in the following phrase, with no dots or carriage returns :

Bush hid the facts


Now save it onto your desktop or where ever you wish, close it and open it again.

What do you think ?

[The Shame]

lol 00000000

[bl4h]

has something to do with the way windows detects binary and ascii files. The only way to do so is to read the first few bites in the file. I forget why exactly it happens but the lettering in that phrase causes winows to think the file is binary

[fallenmuffin]

This little Windows Notepad "trick" is often posted to online forums and blogs and also travels via email. When the phrase "Bush hid the facts" is typed into the Windows XP or Windows NT/2000 versions of Notepad as instructed above, the re-opened file displays an unreadable line of squares or Chinese style characters. Some of the more wide-eyed conspiracy theorists postulate that this result is a form of political commentary directed against US President Bush and was knowingly and deliberately programmed into Notepad by Microsoft.

Alas, the truth is far less compelling. It appears that a lot of other character strings in the pattern 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 5 letters will give the same result. For example, the phrase "Bill fed the goats" also displays the garbled text.

In fact, even a line of text such as "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" will elicit the same results.

Since I first published this article, a few readers have pointed out that some character strings that fit the "4,3,3,5" pattern do not generate the error. For example, the phrase "Bush hid the truth" is displayed normally. However, conspiracy theorists should not take this as aiding their argument. "Fred led the brats", "brad ate the trees" and other strings also escape the error.

Thus, any hint of political conspiracy fades into oblivion and is replaced by a rather mundane programming bug. It seems probable that a certain combination and/or frequency of letters in the character string cause Notepad to misinterpret the encoding of the file when it is re-opened. If the file is originally saved as "Unicode" rather than "ANSI" the text displays correctly. Older versions of Notepad such as those that came with Windows 95, 98 or ME do not include Unicode support so the error does not occur.

So, nothing weird here at all...except perhaps for the fact that someone, somewhere had nothing better to do than turn a simple software glitch into another lame conspiracy theory.

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[interracialtoons]

Open Notepad and type in the following phrase, with no dots or carriage returns :

Bush hid the facts


Now save it onto your desktop or where ever you wish, close it and open it again.

What do you think ?

Holly fucking shittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!

Now that just blows my mind....That's FUCKING SCARY!!


How the hell does this happen and how did you find this out.

Man, I think this is a sign that Bush is from hell.

I got to try this on my other laptop that's brand new to see what happens.

And the writing doesn't appear to be random binary.
Those are actual Kangi charaters of the Chinese and Japanese language.

I gotta find my kangi book and look this shit up.

[MaddCaz]

dopenosity

[SmokeyTheBear]

view source of this page http://ytmnd.webspacemania.com

[OG LennyT]

pretty freaky stuff

[madawgz]

it can be anything

try this for example:

madd dog iss l333t

[SmokeyTheBear]

p.s. doesnt work in firefox

[Kimo]

this is old and stupid and yeah...

also if you repost this message and email it to all of your contacts microsoft will send you a check for $10,000

[SmokeyTheBear]

this is old and stupid and yeah...

also if you repost this message and email it to all of your contacts microsoft will send you a check for $10,000

hmm i was told bill gates was sending the check.. should i throw this one from bill gates away and wait for the proper check from microsoft ?

[tehHinjew]

Notepad was programmed by Nostradamus!

that guy is my hero!

[interracialtoons]

Ahh fuck! It does the same thing with other phrases too.
Damn, I was hoping that this was electronic proof that Bush was evil.

[CaptainHowdy]

Notepad was programmed by Nostradamus!

!!

[woj]

[ timeline pic ]

[Quagmire]

Someone better alert Michael Moore! A movie must be made!

[fris]

old, but still funny

[Violetta]

type failure into g.............

[beta-tester]

This one is pretty funny
Nice trick (hack?) ;)

[stev0]

haha, strange

[E$_manager]

I am frightened. A mystery!