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Wierd Jun 15, 2006
f you're a Windows user, open Notepad and type in this phrase, without
the quote marks and with no carriage return: "Bush hid the facts". Now
save it and open it again.

The subversive text is probably gone, replaced by a line of white
boxes, or Chinese characters if you have the font.

Weeeird. Lets see if you geeks can explain this one :D

MaaaD
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Jun 15, 2006
Maaad, you're mad :lol: . How did you discover that one?
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Jun 15, 2006
I blame the Mossad when I get the flu and I blame the CIA for bugging Windows... :)

Also I think you have too much time on your hands :)
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Jun 15, 2006
read the reason here

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http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1
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Jun 15, 2006
i agree with Liban, you seriously need to get out a bit more mate

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Jun 15, 2006
I cant handle sun light, or those gleaming neon lights at night. i prefer to stay in the comfrot of my cave .. errr room ..

sniper the thread still doesnt have a conculsive answer to why this is happening.
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Jun 15, 2006
When saving the file choose the encoding UTF-8 or Unicode big endian and it will save normally.

Obviously it is a bug in encoding and only the programmers at M$ can explain it and hopefully try to fix it.
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Jun 15, 2006
Wow this is really messed up. If you replace Bush by your own name then it opens up fine. One you retype Bush it gets replaced by unknown script.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Jun 16, 2006
Venice this just happens to be one of many combinations that cause this. Its just that this one is funny. Here is an explanation from a programmer at MS:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2 ... 31016.aspx
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Jun 16, 2006
MaaaD wrote:I cant handle sun light, or those gleaming neon lights at night. i prefer to stay in the comfrot of my cave .. errr room ..

sniper the thread still doesnt have a conculsive answer to why this is happening.


answer was therein the comments........bug in encoding
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