Impress your friends (if you have any)

[Ryanwb]

1. Open Notepad
2. Type the text "this app can break" (without quotes)
3. Save the file as anything you want
4. Re-open the file in Notepad

 

[Ryanwb]

If you have the chinese language pack installed you will see something different than squares

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Haha, thats pretty cool. Now why does it do that?

 

[O]

I don't have any.

 

[Ryanwb]

Haha, thats pretty cool. Now why does it do that?

I don't understand it enough to explain it.... it's a limitation in Windows

 

[thirty-two]

I don't understand it enough to explain it.... it's a limitation in Windows

Kinda like when a kid asks "Why is the sky blue?"

It just is!!!!

 

[Ryanwb]

Kinda like when a kid asks "Why is the sky blue?"

It just is!!!!

I can explain why the sky is blue if you want to hear

 

[thirty-two]

I can explain why the sky is blue if you want to hear

I can too

It's just easier to say "Because it is!"

 

[Linderbee]

tee hee! cool!

 

[FArting]

cool

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Most of the people that I work with are computer nerds. Trust me, you would have to do a lot more to impress them than this.

 

[bratwurst]

Please attach screenshot... don't have chinese installed and don't wish to do so.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Please attach screenshot... don't have chinese installed and don't wish to do so.

Thanks in advance.

You don't have to install it to do this

 

[devilalum]

Impress your friends. (if you have any)

1. Open Notepad
2. Type the text "this app can break" (without quotes)
3. Save the file as anything you want
4. Re-open the file in Notepad

If this is how you impress your friends then you probably don't have any.

I however was impressed.

 

[devilalum]

Most of the people that I work with are computer nerds. Trust me, you would have to do a lot more to impress them than this.

What if you could make your computer fart the Star Spangled Banner?

 

[Ryanwb]

If this is how you impress your friends then you probably don't have any.

I however was impressed.

Update

Microsoft claims this is not a bug in their code rather something to do with the pattern of the characters... or something. I can't find the link that I read earlier today.

Bottom line, notepad sucks

 

[bratwurst]

You don't have to install it to do this

Yes I misunderstood the original part about chinese characters.

Bottom line, notepad sucks

Yep, I usually use textpad, it rocks. www.textpad.com

 

[Kel Varnsen]

What if you could make your computer fart the Star Spangled Banner?

Now that is that something that would impress my friends.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

What if you could make your computer fart the Star Spangled Banner?

Mildly impressed.