How to break Notepad
Posted by Ronnie Holm on September 2nd, 2006
Do the following:
- Open Notepad
- Type in “this app can break” (without the quotes)
- Save file
- Close Notepad
- Re-open saved file in Notepad
Now Notepad displays funny looking foreign characters.
This is caused by a “bug” in the Win32 function IsTextUnicode, which Notepad calls to heuristically determine if a file is Unicode encoded.
For more in-depth info click here.
