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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,730 |
| Posted: | | | | Try the following: Open Notepad.exe and type Bush hid the facts Save the document close Notepad and reopen the document.
The original text has disappeared and you'd see either chinese symbols or placeholders. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up! But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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Registered: June 9, 2007 | Posts: 1,208 |
| Posted: | | | | Spooky |
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Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,665 |
| Posted: | | | | Funny. I tried it with Cheney but it didn't work. Guess he didn't hide the facts. | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,744 |
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Registered: April 6, 2007 | Posts: 153 |
| Posted: | | | | Doesn't seem to work on my (Vista) system. Any explanation for the odd behaviour when it does do it? | | | --- ¡Hola! |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,652 |
| Posted: | | | | Wierd!!! | | | <---------Mithrandir, Laverne and Shirley Caroline |
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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,461 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Johan1FS: Quote: Doesn't seem to work on my (Vista) system. Any explanation for the odd behaviour when it does do it? DJ Doena provided a link to the explanation above. Vista has extra smarts and keeps track of the encoding, even for a notepad file. You can force the error by overriding it. First create the file as usual. Save it. The default encoding is ANSI. When you load it, the text will be normal. You can also "save as" with the Unicode encoding option. When you load it, it will look normal. However, if you "save as" in ANSI encoding, then subsequently, File/Open the same file and override the encoding to Unicode, the text will magically switch to chinese characters. This will only happen for the types of text sequences discussed in the explanation. | | | Thanks for your support. Free Plugins available here. Advanced plugins available here. Hey, new product!!! BDPFrog. | | | Last edited: by mediadogg |
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Registered: April 6, 2007 | Posts: 153 |
| Posted: | | | | Yes, thanks, it was very interesting reading... | | | --- ¡Hola! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,394 |
| Posted: | | | | It didn't work with my version of Notepad (Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.080814-2334:Service Pack 2), either. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole) Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges. DVD Profiler user since June 15, 2001 |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,917 |
| Posted: | | | | On my XP box, I just saw blank spaces on re-opening. Probably because I don't have other language packs loaded. |
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| Blair | Resistance is Futile! |
Registered: October 30, 2008 | Posts: 1,249 |
| Posted: | | | | Funny. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 20,111 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote: It didn't work with my version of Notepad (Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.080814-2334:Service Pack 2), either. Didn't work for me either, on Version 6.0 of Notepad, Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 installed. | | | Corey |
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Registered: June 9, 2007 | Posts: 1,208 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote: Explanation Thanks for taking all the magic out of it |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,436 |
| Posted: | | | | | | | Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan. Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| kemper | Vodka martini... shaken.. |
Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 402 |
| Posted: | | | | This is almost as good as typing "I'd like to see Bill Gates dead" and then run it through the thesaurus in word (v 2000 and older i recall) |
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Registered: October 2, 2008 | Posts: 110 |
| Posted: | | | | It didn't work for me at first. Then I typed in "bush" with a lower case "b" and left off the period at the end.
It works only if you don't capitalize Bush and leave off the sentence's period.
Also supposedly it isn't just the phrase "bush hid the facts" but a sequence of characters that is similar.
[url]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070208125206AAemSrb[/url] I tried switching the sentence to the nerd phrase and it didn't work, I changed it back to the bush thing and that didn't work, so apparently it does it the first time the sequence is typed in, but after you change it you get normal saving function. | | | CaptKiirk42 DVD Collection/ Also Klandersen at DVDAF DVDCrate Collection My Blog |
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