What the hell?

[AntiVirus]

This is weird.  I saw this on another forum.  What you do is:

1. Open up Microsoft's Notepad

2. Type: Bush hid the facts

3. Save it

4. Reopen it

It comes out in little [][][][][][][][][][] things.  Why's that?  Tad strange?!

[Edit]
Nvm, I know why. 
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/bush-hid-the-facts-notepad.html

Still neat though!

[Armin]

It's a bug in notepad. I think it does it for just about any 4 word phrase, where the first word is 4 letters, second is 3, etc.

[AntiVirus]

Yeah, most sentences that follow: 4 3 3 5

[Newby]

iago use the linux

[AntiVirus]

iago use the linux

Looks like he is missing out on all the Windows fun!

[Sidoh]

I'm pretty sure this was posted on here before.  iago or someone articulated the reasoning behind it quite well, if I remember correctly.

[AntiVirus]

I'm pretty sure this was posted on here before.  iago or someone articulated the reasoning behind it quite well, if I remember correctly.

Well la de da.  Didn't look for it.  I didn't recall hearing about it, so I assumed it wasn't already posted. :P

[Sidoh]

Well la de da.  Didn't look for it.  I didn't recall hearing about it, so I assumed it wasn't already posted. :P

I wasn't accusing you of anything; I was just making a somewhat tangential statement.  I didn't mean to be rude or condescending.

It very well could have been posted before you even registered here.

[Rule]

No, I remember it being posted here less than a year ago.  "Old" :P

Here's the link.

[AntiVirus]

Well damn, I was even here on these forums when that was posted!!  Looks like I am behind the times!  Well for those of you new people that didn't know, now you do! :D

[Sidoh]

No, I remember it being posted here less than a year ago.  "Old" :P

Here's the link.

Ah.  My sense of time on these sorts of things isn't that well established. :(

[disco]

THIS APP CAN BREAK

[iago]

Long story short: it's because of a bug when deciding whether or not a file is unicode.

And incidentally, it's not all about 4 3 3 5.  For example, "Bush hid the truth" doesn't work.

[Joe]

Yeah, HABP.

I thought it was about detecting from the line ending, though.

[Skywing]

Long story short: it's because of a bug when deciding whether or not a file is unicode.

And incidentally, it's not all about 4 3 3 5.  For example, "Bush hid the truth" doesn't work.

It's not really a bug.  A heuristic is being used to guess whether a text file with no indication as to whether it is Unicode or not is probably Unicode.  As such, it's really just making an educated guess based on whether something is likely Unicode or not, and like most guesses, sometimes it gets it wrong.