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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

bush hid the facts

An interesting email about notepad is making it's way around cyberspace lately. Try this out:

1 - open notepad
2 - type in "bush hid the facts" (all lower case, no quotes)
3 - save the file to whatever name and location you want
4 - close notepad
5 - now open the file you saved in step 3 (you can double click the file or use notepad's file->open menu item)

The result? A bunch of squares like the following - is it a software easter egg or simply a bug?

posted by stonesilent @ 8:58 AM   3 comments

3 Comments:

At 10:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

After the boxes appear in the text file (close, then reopen), copy the boxes and paste them into a Word document. I got nine Chinese characters with the font listed as Arial Unicode MS. I copied the characters into the Google Translate tool, selected Chinese to English BETA, and clicked Translate. The result is "Albert Ben Italian Mount got Tou reflect mongoose seized". I have no idea what it means, but I'm sure it's sinister. Maybe...

 
At 9:09 AM, Blogger -- said...

Nice find! I tried it, and apparently the reason why you see squares is that you haven't installed compatibility with asian languages on your instance of Windows :D.

If you did, you'd see some japanese characters. These: "畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴" (without the quotes), you might still not be able to see them, in that case I might be able to provide you with a screenshot. Anyway, I tried to translate the text (using good old Babelfish), and I just got some untranslated kanjis plus the word "Projection" and some questionmarks.

Cheers mate!

 
At 12:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i just tried it and got squares as well.

..why would you need asian language if you saved the file in english..

 

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