Question:
Notepad trick?
2007-10-17 12:13:48 UTC
Okay so open up notepad

and type in: bush hid the facts

just save it and name it whatever you want

close notepad and open up the saved file and get surprised

Works on windows xp, and Win2k
Thirteen answers:
Luck dragon
2007-10-17 12:16:29 UTC
yes you do this 畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴
emkay
2007-10-17 12:47:00 UTC
Not only "Bush hid the facts"



Also Bush hit the facts, Bush bit the facts,



replace many three letter words with "hid".. It changes the font format



Similarly try "Bill fed the goats"...



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.



If you have time read the explanations



The first is that, after the ASCII-to-hex conversion of the string, Notepad rearranges the hex codes not according to ASCII standards, but to Unicode, and that messes it up. Here's the example:

Take "bush hid the facts". The hex codes (they can be seen with any hex editor you want to download) for the string are:



62 75 73 68 20 68 69 64 20 74 68 65 20 66 61 63 74 73



Arrange the codes to make up Unicode characters and you get:



7562 6873 6820 6964 7420 6568 6620 6163 7473



You'll notice that every code is hyperlinked
Colin Willson
2007-10-17 12:29:25 UTC
Looks like a conspiracy to me!!



obviously one of the programmers of notepad had a sense of humor there, but nice, I liked it.



For those of you who didnt get it to work when you re-open the file it is just 9 boxes there instead of the text
cr1zzy11
2007-10-17 12:28:23 UTC
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wow u are magic
2007-10-17 13:02:08 UTC
freaakkkyyyyyy
♦rocperson♦
2007-10-17 12:46:30 UTC
heh heh, kewl

if it didnt work for you, when you open the file back up its says something else.
Cookie Monster
2007-10-17 12:22:42 UTC
rrrrraaaaaaannnnnnddddooooommmmmm
2007-10-17 12:21:58 UTC
No.......he had bad intelligence ......just like you.
Catholic 14
2007-10-17 12:21:38 UTC
why did it do that
keeegs
2007-10-17 12:20:16 UTC
I have Windows XP and nothing happened. It just said the same thing. What's supposed to happen?



Can someone say what happens?
Bubbles
2007-10-17 12:24:46 UTC
Are u a bit on the stupid side?
.
2007-10-17 12:20:50 UTC
WTF!

This is surely a conspiracy!!
2007-10-17 12:18:19 UTC
Why did it do that?? Im stumped.


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