RE: Things You Can't Say in Notepad

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Well, that's kind of scary, in that, I can't tell you how many
times I've used notepad (sometimes only as a scratchpad, whereas
the problem would not manifest) to make (for example) firewall
ACL changes, etc....

- ferg


-- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
It feels like Notepad's Unicode reader is broken.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of David Lodge
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:32 PM
To: Fergie; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Things You Can't Say in Notepad

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:41:06 +0200, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> 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.

Wierd - it seems to be only when loaded. Looking in a hex editor and it  
contains the words as normal.

Write the text in wordpad, save as a text file and open in notepad, shows  
the mangle characters.
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