I think I'm going crazy
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
Seems like you've either stumbled across an Easter Egg or a bug in notepad. wordpad and IE both display the file correctly. Interesting, a quick google doesn't offer any clues. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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Seems like you've either stumbled across an Easter Egg or a bug in notepad. wordpad and IE both display the file correctly. Interesting, a quick google doesn't offer any clues. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
I tried this and I get something a bit different: Run Notepad type s42itd.dll Save and close reopen... there's nothing there! (Not even little boxes.) type s42itd.dll again Save and Close reopen... and now it's there, just as I typed it! (NT 4 sp6a) 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
I'm pretty sure I read it in Richter's Advanced Windows: notepad makes a guess as to whether the file is unicode or non-unicode by partially parsing the file. I guess the s42itd looks more unicode than non-unicode in byte format. Cheers, Barry
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I'm pretty sure I read it in Richter's Advanced Windows: notepad makes a guess as to whether the file is unicode or non-unicode by partially parsing the file. I guess the s42itd looks more unicode than non-unicode in byte format. Cheers, Barry
But it does this in only new files apparently because I can take the same file after the mess up, type in the info again and save it and it's fine. Crazy. Jeremy Falcon
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
It looks like notepad defaults to Unicode in this situation...
0B3E:0100 FF FE 73 00 34 00 32 00-69 00 74 00 64 00 2E 00 ..s.4.2.i.t.d...
0B3E:0110 64 00 6C 00 6C 00 96 90-02 00 EB 0E 34 00 2D 0B d.l.l.......4.-.
0B3E:0120 FF E8 9E 00 58 EB 03 E8-1D 01 58 C3 F9 C3 55 51 ....X.....X...UQ
0B3E:0130 26 8A 4F 08 32 ED 0B C9-74 0D 8D 6F 09 E8 19 04 &.O.2...t..o....
0B3E:0140 73 08 E8 0E 00 E2 F6 F9-EB 06 2E 89 2E A9 90 F8 s...............
0B3E:0150 59 5D C3 26 80 7E 00 00-74 03 45 EB F6 45 C3 2E Y].&.~..t.E..E..
0B3E:0160 80 0E A2 90 10 E8 C6 FF-72 4A 2E 80 26 A2 90 EF ........rJ..&...
0B3E:0170 50 2E A1 A5 90 2B C6 2E-01 06 A3 90 58 2E 8B 36 P....+......X..6That's why it works the second time around, because you're typing in Unicode characters instead of ANSI. Jeremy Falcon
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It doesn't do this for me (
Win XP Pro SP1) Matt NewmanI have XP Pro sp1 also and I get the boxes.
Steve McLenithan
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
cool, I too got those crazy boxes.... :eek: Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get! -- Homer J Simpson
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
This is a moment of history! What are the chances of stumbling on that discovery??? Probably less than lottery? ;-)
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
This highlights the problem with ANSI encoding and reinforces the point that we should all be coding for Unicode. I'm guessing notepad is interpreting the byte sequence as a lead byte. On my system it shows up as far-eastern characters (Lucida console font which is Unicode and includes most character sets).
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
i followed your instructions but i get chinese(?) characters instead of empty boxes. Very strange.
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Ok. So do this: Open Notepad Type "s42itd.dll" (without the quotes) Save and close Now, open the saved text file... I've done this on two different systems and all I get are 5 little empty boxes. Like it's trying to interperet the 10 characters I typed in as 5 bizarre unicode characters. What's the deal with that? Is notepad screwed up or am I???
I just don't understand where the Unicode byte pair (FF FE) comes from at the beginning of the file. The bytes for s and 4 certainly aren't similar to that... so what could possibly be confusing notepad? And how come if I type s42ext.dll (another of my company's dlls) it doesn't have that problem? Which character codes are the ones that cause notepad to barf? So strange...