Open notepad program in windows XP, type "iran win via atoms"
save it in a file, close notepad, open it again, load the file,
see what happens.... anybody can explain this?
2006-10-13 08:18:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
This is a character format interpretation bug in Notepad.
It happens not just with "iran win via atoms", but with any string which has the pattern:
4 characters (space) 3 characters (space) 3 characters (space) 5 characters
Eg.:
iran win via atoms
bush hid the facts
The notepad stores files as byte streams. When opening a file, notepad tries to understand whether the stream represents Unicode characters. If it finds that the byte stream doesn't represent Unicode characters, it interprets the content as ASCII characters.
In "iran win via atoms" case, Notepad (due to a bug) interprets the byte stream as Unicode and tries to display the text as Unicode (instead of ASCII). If the corresponding Unicode language is not installed on your PC, blank characters or square boxes are displayed instead.
If you open the file in some other editor (say Wordpad), you will see the original string.
This will also happen with strings having pattern:
2 characters + (space) + 3 characters + (space) + 3 characters.
Eg.:
aa aaa aaa
zz zzz zzz
I hate Microsoft Notepad. I use SciTE instead. It's free and open-source and offers syntax highlighting for many languages, apart from great features:
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDownload.html
2006-10-14 04:02:06 · answer #1 · answered by Utkarsh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude it gave me a bunch of rectangles...I would take a pretty good educated guess and say it has nothing to do with the Iran situation but still
Heres something to chew on if your into this kinda stuff too, which it seems you are
10-11-06 a small plane hit an appartment complex in New York
Turn the date 10-11-06 upside down
2006-10-13 08:25:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It seems to have to do with how many spaces and letters, the same thing happens if I type 'aaaa aaa aaaaa aaaaa' Found this link discussing it, appears to just be a bug in Notepad.
2006-10-13 08:25:44 · answer #3 · answered by Darien 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-19 08:19:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-13 08:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by Dave 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
iran win via atom
think us of a bastards in oval office
2006-10-13 08:21:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I give up. What happens? I don't want to ruin my computer by trying it.
2006-10-13 08:22:13 · answer #7 · answered by rustyshackleford001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Iran has not even tested its atoms, how can it win?
2006-10-13 08:21:28 · answer #8 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
weird I dont kno
2006-10-13 08:20:29 · answer #9 · answered by Missbribri 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the same thing happens if you type "bush hid the facts" I think it's microsoft helping bush with is sensorship agenda
2006-10-13 08:21:08 · answer #10 · answered by Ria L 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋