The same thing happens with "this app can break" |
It appears to happen with anything containing that amount of characters and spaces, I tried 'four one one seven' which has the same characters and spaces a 'this app can break' and 'bush hid the facts'. |
It works with "joel can not dance" too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad |
That's kind of old news. Notepad thinks it's UTF-16 string. |
It doesn't work with all sentences with that amount of characters and spaces, at least not here. I tried "Brin sez msf sucks" and it didn't work... |
This quite old '4+3+3+5' case was covered thoroughly here by Michael S. Kaplan from MSDN: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/06/14/631016.aspx
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doesn't work for me on a mac. |
"google, do no evil"
See if Microsoft dares translate THAT into Chinese!
May be diff character spacing, but hope springs eternal...
How about:
"free men and women"
Try it and see! How can Microsoft deny that goal to our Chinese friends?
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If you translate the Chinese characters back after saving 'bush hid the facts' using Google Translate you get 'Albert 桳 name Mount 敨 video games were 獴' |
"I tried "Brin sez msf sucks" and it didn't work..."
Has to be all lowercase. "Bush hid the facts" does not work, but "bush hid the facts" does. |
it supposedly workes with any eighteen character string (without regard to spacing), although I haven't been able to get it to work with other phrases such as (among others) "eighteen character". However, "this was not ready" does work. |
Translated is 畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴
which have: no meaning at all :P (i am a native chinese speaker) |
There's no way to know the encoding of a string, ie, be it UTF or plaintext. So in order to determine if characters are 8 bits or 16 bits, it performs a heuristic search and "guesses". This is one case where the guess is wrong. |
oh gosh, I can only recognize 4 of the words... |
if you type in
.LOG
as the first line in the notepad file. everytime you open that file.. it'll automatically insert a timestamp at the end of the file
can come in handy.. |
WOW, thanks Amol!
... I use notepad a lot, and adding timestamps to entries sure comes in handy to me! |
What hidden functionality still is in there? (Maybe this little thing has more functionality than MS Word ;-)) |
Shameless plug: http://netpadd.com (like Notepad with more functionality) |