Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad

["Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>]

I can reproduce the following, i.e. it's replaced with the white 
boxes/Chinese characters:

Bush hid the facts
this app can break

I cannot get either of the following to work (or not work, as the case may 
be):

This app can break
Mary had new lambs

Seems there may be something else at play besides just the 4,3,3,5 lengths.

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drsolly" <drsollyp () drsolly com>
To: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Cc: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [funsec] Things You Can't Say in Notepad


> My Windows 98 Notepad doesn't have this problem
>
> Can anyone else reproduce this?
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> > Fukenbroken.  ;-)
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. The
> > folks at WinCustomize.com discovered an odd bug in Notepad that's
> > triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two
> > three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this
> > app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.
> >
> > If Microsoft can't keep strange bugs out of Windows' simplest
> > application, we'd better get used to the monthly security patch cycle.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Link:
> > http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576
> >
> > - ferg
> >
> >
> > --
> > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> >  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> >  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> >  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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