notepad bug

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

Did you report this to MS via the feedback link?
"Phillip Pi" wrote in message

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

Weird. Must be a bug...report it please. Paula
"Phillip Pi" wrote in message

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

Nice digg Phillip from SYMANTEC
"Paula" wrote:

Weird. Must be a bug...report it please. Paula
"Phillip Pi" wrote in message http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

That only happens if you save it as ANSI with .txt extension. Do the same saving as UTF8 or Unicode and it appears as normal.
Oh, and I didn't get squares...I got Chinese characters!! Added the same line again and that stayed 'normal' on saving it.
Still very weird though.
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "Phillip Pi" wrote in message

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

A bug with a very easy fix... just don't type that sentence :) Wow, chinese characters! -- Robert Firth


"Phillip Pi" wrote:

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

No, what's the URL to it?
On 6/14/2006 6:08 PM PT, Colin Barnhorst wrote:

Did you report this to MS via the feedback link?
"Phillip Pi" wrote in message
http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) --

Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

There should be a Feedback icon on your desktop.
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "Phillip Pi" wrote in message

No, what's the URL to it?
On 6/14/2006 6:08 PM PT, Colin Barnhorst wrote:
Did you report this to MS via the feedback link?
"Phillip Pi" wrote in message
http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 from http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks
How come Vista's Notepad still has this problem? I hope MS fixes this in Vista. ;) -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) 2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break" 3. Save the file to your hard drive. 4. Close Notepad 5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.
Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can't figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks

Are you saving it in Unicode and opening it in ANSI, I wonder? What extension did you give the file name when you saved it? When you double-clicked it, did it open with Notepad or with something else?