[EchoNoise]

Hi peoples, try this in notepad

• Open Up Notepad
  
• Type in "Help the big tiger" (without the quotes)
  
• Save the File
  
• Close notepad and Open it up again
  
• Open up the file you just saved
  
• LOOK AT IT !

How freaking weird!

[LLXX]

Only happens on Vista. I know, their notepad is broken.

[Jito463]

Happens in XP x64 version as well. Very strange.

[oldwolf]

Happens in XP SP1 too

[EchoNoise]

LLXX, on Jun 21 2006, 02:38 PM, said:

Only happens on Vista. I know, their notepad is broken.

Happens on all unicode versions of notepad

[Camarade_Tux]

undeadsoldier, on Jun 21 2006, 08:49 AM, said:

LLXX, on Jun 21 2006, 02:38 PM, said:

Only happens on Vista. I know, their notepad is broken.

Happens on all unicode versions of notepad

And in Notepad2 too.

Which is pretty easy to understand since I think it uses the same APIs as windows's notepad to display text.

[WolfX2]

happens on XP SP2 too

[EchoNoise]

Like I said... All unicode versions of notepad

[Camarade_Tux]

Oh, this doesn't happens anymore in Notepad2!
Hum, what is XVI32 doing in my taskbar ?



Also,




And this never happens in Notepad++ which can also be used to restore your text.


PS: notepad2 doesn't use the same API than windows's notepad. That was a Big mistake.

This post has been edited by Camarade_Tux: 28 June 2006 - 01:52 AM

[EchoNoise]

Hahaha, thats a great find !

[Camarade_Tux]

This specific sequence should be a header. Right ?

[LLXX]

Camarade_Tux, on Jun 28 2006, 09:04 AM, said:

This specific sequence should be a header. Right ?

Yes, Unicode text files should have FFFE as the first word. The programmer forgot to add a check for that, and instead assumed Unicode.

[clavicle]

undeadsoldier, on Jun 28 2006, 03:03 PM, said:

Hahaha, thats a great find !

Indeed it is great find and strange too

[SourceCode]

heh, that's strange.

it's not a problem with the API itself though, because i use that same API in another app and it handles the file like normal.

[Camarade_Tux]

Thanks to a problem with an AutoHotKey script I think I found some explanations.
The FF FE sequence is used to determine the endianness of the file. It is a BOM.
If you read wikipedia's articles you know endianness is hardware-dependent.
Now, do you think Notepad, Notepad2... could run on something else than little-endian machines such as Intel's processors ?
So there is no need to bother with "FF FE", it will always be little-endian.
Then, Notepad++ is based on ScinTilla, and ScinTilla can run on win32 and machines that support GTK+. So it can include big-endian machines. Thus, it needs this FF FE string.

If you try to open a unicode text file created on a machine with a SPARC processor (SunOS) with Notepad/Notepad2, you will probably have troubles reading it.

[patio]

Or try this in Notepad:

this app can break


Save it and re-open it and see for yourself.

patio.

[zhangheyin]

XP sp2 Professional Chinese editon


XP sp2 Professional Chinese editon

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[EchoNoise]

patio, on Jul 10 2006, 10:35 AM, said:

Or try this in Notepad:

this app can break


Save it and re-open it and see for yourself.

patio.

hahahahaha!!! thats awesome