bush hid the facts

tvbrat

open up notepad, type in "bush hid the facts"
(without quotes, no return)

Save.
Exit.
Reopen with Notepad

and it reads like this
畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴




neat

RE*AC*TOR

that's bizarre - wait i typed in "cush hid het cafts" - same thing

tvbrat

taken from

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576


Things You Can't Say in Notepad
If 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.

(Found via Digg)

aidan_walsh

Microsoft's Mich Kaplan explains:

Behind "How to break Windows Notepad"
Consistent garbage text can be incorrect encoding identification (or detection)