Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Windows notepad bug!!!

Try this...

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it

4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Any explanation to the above?

2 comments:

Vikas said...

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.

e.g.

"Bill fed the goats"
"hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh"

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.

Unknown said...

Hi Vikas

my name is Dinesh, i am trying to reach you, Can i have your mail id.

Cheers
Dinesh
93431 53003
dinesh.j@flexiworks.biz

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