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Windows XP - Bush Reference?

Load up notepad.

Type "bush hid the facts"

save the document, any name works.

Close it.

Open it again.

what you open isn't what you typed.

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Windows Xp, notepad

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Bush hid my text

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Joecool writes:: There's a simple explanation for this. In notepad, any other 4-3-3-5 letter word combo will have the same results. It is all to do with a limitation in Windows. Text files containing Unicode UTF-16-encoded Unicode are supposed to start with a "Byte-Order Mark" (BOM), which is a two-byte flag that tells a reader how the following UTF-16 data is encoded. The reason this happens: 1) You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding format) 2) You are reading from 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As / Encoding format) This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE characters; 344 of 377 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Goatboy writes:: Erm... have you noticed that this egg has already been mentioned in the same catigory using the exact same words as the title?; 125 of 149 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Nicolas.NET International. writes:: Mine displays Chinese! (unfortunately, they might not be shown correctly) 畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴 Translated by Google, it means: Mount Albert 桳 Hour by showing video games seized mongoose Haha! Nice!; 36 of 52 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Ajerick writes:: I translated by Google and I get 'Albert Benren Mount Tiantou seized Ying Meng' Yep.; 15 of 20 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

I. Don T. Teggs writes:: There's no Bush references there. Try typing "your hat was dirty" (no quotes) - it results the same thing.; 8 of 11 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

MyWorldPlz writes:: Well, to be honest this is nothing NEAR an egg. Ok, because of the encoding you save it in any array of words with that number of characters. Its just a formatting issue. For those who are making annoying comments and lieing about your findings on this - please don't we are looking for some real easter eggs here.; 7 of 11 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

koira writes:: This "egg" only appears in versions of Windows up to Windows XP. Microsoft fixed this bug in Vista.; 0 of 0 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Ruraidhri Hassan writes:: If you do it in Windows ME it comes up in Japanise; 8 of 20 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

CD Player writes:: Use EditPad Lite and you'll see what you typed, not the garbage. Great editor!; 2 of 8 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Ascendancy writes:: I had noticed that there is two of this egg. I think someone has been a spud and added a second version of this egg.; 13 of 31 people found this comment helpful. Did you?