The Notepad Bug - But Why?
- Posted: Oct 07, 2009 at 8:55 AM
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In NotePad there is a little known bug that results from typing some strange sentences - want to know why? Please comment with other questions you'd like to get answered!
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That should be UTF-8...not UTF-A...fixing now!
I should have waited to finish watching the video before trying it on Win 7 RC.
haha- you couldn't wait 57 seconds!?!
Nice post Laura, keep 'em coming!
Also, do you know this poweruser tip for notepad?
If you create a new text file, write ".LOG" in the first line and save it. Next time you open the file in notepad, it will append the time and date on the last line of the file. Try it out!
I cannot reproduce the bug on my Windows XP SP3....
Haha, i did the exact same thing
Here's another bug: why isn't there any support for \n style newlines? It's a pain to open simple text documents in WordPad. Will this be fixed in Windows 8 maybe?
You can also press F5 to get date and time, the slightly manual way of doing it.
That's just weird
By the way, these aer every professional looking videos. I like them.
Fun video, I think notepad got problem in type Chinese Simple, Vietnamese, Japanese, ...
i also tried it and couldnt get it to work
then i saw the end
I couldn't get "Goats are Tards" to work no matter what I did, but I did get "bush hid the facts" to work provided I typed it in all lower case.
oops wrong thread...
bringin da love to notepad. Great vid. Dont know where you dug up the guy in the video but hes a pro.
cool. There is also another strange bug. If you delete c:\pagefile.sys, windows crashes. Wierd.
did know about the bug, but didn't know we it is
It's interesting to go deep for some interesting/historical stuff in Windows.
I really like tales of "the old new things" blog
I just tried everything on XP Pro. Can't repro. Please make a screencast showing us the actual bug.
Good idea- Ill look into screencasting it! Thanks
Laura did u used to be on G4?
I like this series. Short and very well done! To the point, you could say.
Duanerrr: Yes I did! For 5 years
Good times.
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