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Bug in Microsoft Notepad
Posted by BlackDigital June 15, 2006 12:20 PM with 12 comment(s)
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1. Open Notepad
2. Type 'AAAA BBB CCC DDDDD' (or any other 4-3-3-5 letter combination)
3. Save the document, and close notepad
4. Open the saved file

The resulting text has been turned into Unicode - hopefully Microsoft will issue a Critical Security Bulletin for this soon [;)]
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william said:

Now that is funny! [Y][:P]
June 15, 2006 2:28 PM
 

thereverend said:

Actually, 'AAAAAAAA BBB CCCCC' works as well. You can also use any character where the ASCII value ends in a zero in place of the space (such as a lower-case 'p'). It is a probelm with the unicode detection... the smaller the sample of text, the more difficult it is to guess.

June 15, 2006 2:49 PM
 

Speed said:

    If you enter the combination 4444 333 333 55555 it also works!
June 15, 2006 2:58 PM
 

Speed said:

    This article has been posted on Digg by Hourigan:
http://digg.com/technology/Notepad_Bug:_Any_4-3-3-5_letter_combination_works#c1975712
June 15, 2006 2:59 PM
 

SystemIdleProcess said:

This was on Digg yesterday. http://digg.com/software/_this_app_can_break_Are_there_any_other_forbidden_strings_in_Notepad_
June 15, 2006 3:05 PM
 

phunky said:

that is weird hahaha. what's also weird is that this was just found now.

June 15, 2006 4:16 PM
 

pdileepa said:

phunky : I remember reading this before more than a year ago. What I don't remember is WHERE I read it. Probably a good time to fix the bug in Vista.
June 15, 2006 4:45 PM
 

xpclient said:

But you can choose the correct encoding even in the Open dialog box.
June 15, 2006 5:35 PM
 

RE66 said:

MS are so stopied. When a conversion to UNICODE is require

( Writting hebrew or Arabic ) they noisy popup inform you that you need to save in UNICODE. If you understand it, do it yourself , notepad !!!!

 

But it does in the wrong case

June 15, 2006 8:03 PM
 

JasonCox said:

䅁䅁䈠䉂䌠䍃䐠䑄䑄

 

^Thats from Notepad in Vista

June 16, 2006 1:11 AM
 

war said:

Guess what is even funnier. ;)

Notepad2 also has this bug. lol
June 16, 2006 4:31 AM
 

noel-usr56 said:

Oh, BlackDigital.  what versions of Notepad are affected by this bug?  The ones from Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista?

fortunately, this problem does NOT happen under the Windows 9xME editions of Notepad.
June 28, 2006 1:10 AM
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