Notepad Bug (Easter Egg?)

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:04 pm

If you open Notepad and save the following text without quotes "Bush hid the facts" for example as foo.txt, you will see that loading the file in notepad has a really odd effect....on the other hand the file seems to be correct when you open it in Wordpad or another editor.
Btw the word meaning doesn't seem to matter but it seems to depend on the number of letters.

Thats either a really stunning bug (I have no clue how to do this by accident) or a really lame Easter Egg.

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:21 pm

lol, weird!

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:47 pm

Hehe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:19 pm

I wonder wether the PB IDE uses IsUnicode_() too, can't check at the moment since I'm on my Linux box (btw wine doesn't have the problem and so microsoft notepad really runs better on Linux than on Windows).

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:33 pm

This really does demonstrate the level of incompetance at Microshaft, they can't even release a simple text editor without bugs!!!!

:roll:

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:35 pm

Well actually the bug is not the fault of the notepad team but a "bug" in the api function IsUnicode_(). That'S also why notepad2 will have the same problem while both will work fine when run under wine.