Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad

["David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:01:50 +0200, Mary Landesman <mlande () bellsouth net>  
wrote:
> Interesting... It appears I can have new lambs, just not old ones. :-)
>
> As noted below, 'Mary had new lambs' displays properly, i.e. as normal  
> text. However, 'Mary had old lambs' results in Chinese characters.

Even wierder - if you use "Mary had nlw lambs" then it results in Chinese  
characters. This all seems to be due to Notepad's guessing of whether the  
document is UTF-16 or not, and as the characters around lower and upper  
case ASCII are usually the Chinese alphabet it comes out.

But both 0x7765 and 0x776c are valid characters, so I don't pretend to  
understand it.

It's still a bug, unless it's got the 0xff 0xfe header then it should  
assume it's UTF-8 or ASCII.

dave
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