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Old 20-06-2006, 02:48 PM
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I know why it does this (sorta), but try this

1) open notepad

2) type "bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)

3) save the text file wherever

4) close notepad and reopen the file


Wierd, huh?

Old 20-06-2006, 02:52 PM
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Why though?
Old 20-06-2006, 02:52 PM
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Just tried that. Very wierd???
Old 20-06-2006, 02:53 PM
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you get 10 little boxes?

thats what i got lol

not really what i was expecting pmsl
Old 20-06-2006, 02:54 PM
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i got chinese writing , that what you got?
Old 20-06-2006, 02:55 PM
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Come up in jap or summat, but i translate it and it dont make sence
Old 20-06-2006, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by fudgeass
you get 10 little boxes?

thats what i got lol

not really what i was expecting pmsl
So did i, but thats cause it cant show thta language, cut n paste it into google or whatever and it will show it

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Old 20-06-2006, 02:56 PM
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Now that's weird..
Old 20-06-2006, 02:56 PM
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igot little boxes too
Old 20-06-2006, 02:57 PM
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i got boxes - obviously because I dont have the right font installed.

that is very strange!
Old 20-06-2006, 02:58 PM
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It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. It's an odd bug in Notepad that's triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.

It has to do with character encoding. Im guessing notepad tries to guess which encoding to use, and it does so fairly well, however it fails on some phrases. IE: "this app can break

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http://apipes.blogspot.com/2006/06/t...can-break.html
Old 20-06-2006, 02:59 PM
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Its just a bug and the chinese it comes out with is just random symbols, dont matter what words you use...

It is indeed an odd bug but it's triggered by a pattern, not a sequence of words. Digg has 5 submissions for it; 3 for "this app can break" one for "bush hid the facts" and one for "jack was the other". It'll trigger on any string of characters in the pattern "xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx" if you save it as ANSI or ASCII.
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edit : far too slow
Old 20-06-2006, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveEscos
It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. It's an odd bug in Notepad that's triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.

It has to do with character encoding. Im guessing notepad tries to guess which encoding to use, and it does so fairly well, however it fails on some phrases. IE: "this app can break

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Old 20-06-2006, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by bud-weis
Originally Posted by DaveEscos
It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. It's an odd bug in Notepad that's triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.

It has to do with character encoding. Im guessing notepad tries to guess which encoding to use, and it does so fairly well, however it fails on some phrases. IE: "this app can break

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Good call!!
Old 20-06-2006, 03:14 PM
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Oh, so sorry for not knowing a nerdston IT term.

Fecking dweebo's!
Old 20-06-2006, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveEscos
It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. It's an odd bug in Notepad that's triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.

It has to do with character encoding. Im guessing notepad tries to guess which encoding to use, and it does so fairly well, however it fails on some phrases. IE: "this app can break

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