#89088 - Xtreme - Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:18 am
Open your windows Notepad.
Write:
easy toy toy games
And save it with any name.
Close Notepad.
Open the file that you just saved.. what the hell? Chinese text.. what does it mean? A secret message from microsofts chinese coder? You tell me.
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#89090 - Legolas - Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:17 am
OMG! :O
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#89110 - clone dad - Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:30 am
ha ha thats weird :-)
#89112 - tepples - Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:35 am
Under win2k, also works with
- Pino ate the pasta
- Bush hid the facts
- Game boy the worst
- that was way weird
Does NOT work with
- Pino ate the pizza
- Bush hid the truth
It's based on guessing the character encoding of a text block, and it often guesses wrong (UTF-16 instead of local 8-bit codepage) on short strings with words of 4, 3, 3, and 5 letters not followed by a newline. More info
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#89166 - keldon - Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:02 pm
This debate begs the question as to how this was all discovered.
#89182 - tepples - Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:25 pm
"Begs the question"? You mean "raises the question", amirite?
Begging the question is something else entirely (circular logic).
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#89208 - JaJa - Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:16 pm
This little trick has caused quite a stir among /.ers and other tech websites.
It's simply because the notepad engine can't differentiate between the encodings (i forget which ones in particular) and gets it wrong.
On machines without the japanese/chinese character sets installed it just displays boxes.
This is unlikely to happen with larger text samples.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/bush-hid-the-facts-notepad.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235.aspx <-- Offical explanation
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#89213 - HtheB - Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:30 pm
whahahahawh rofl roflroflroflrorlfo :P
i liked it xD
#89227 - swimgod - Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:25 pm
慥 祳 got lucky got lucky 朠 浡 獥
LOL
trap the man right = In reporting unlawful 敨 洠 湡 爠 瑨 230,000
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maybe its double dollars and its for the capture of vash the stampede?
>.>
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#89318 - clone dad - Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:05 am
it also works with this:
asdf afd asd asdfg
it works with the pattern of 4, 3, 3, and 5. simple as that. there is no message
#89332 - JaJa - Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:31 am
Not all 4-3-3-5 patterns work.
They must be a valid string in the other encoding for it to work.
Look around on Google.
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#89350 - HtheB - Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:08 pm
| JaJa wrote: |
Not all 4-3-3-5 patterns work.
They must be a valid string in the other encoding for it to work.
Look around on Google. |
indeed... it doesn't work with all words