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odd glitch with windows notepad / why?

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spikespiegal

Golden Member
Saw this one in a Linux forum, and initially wasn't going to try it because it sounded stupid. However, it actually works, and I'm curious as to why.

Quite simple. In Windows Notepad simply type the following and nothing else:

this app can break

Now save it, and open it in notepad, and the characters come out garbled. Further testing showed the actual characters have nothing to do with it. Typing 'aaaa aaa aaa aaaaa' causes the same behaviour.
 
looks like any string in the pattern

aaaa aaa aaa aaaaa where each a can be any character

has this bug

eg bush hid the facts (stolen from P/N)
 
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