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Muzer
17 Jun 2006, 09:34
Here post all the funny glitches or bugs or features made from typing text.

The censoring notepad glitch:
Instructions
1. Open up Notepad in Microsoft Windows (sorry, Mac and Linux users)
2. Type the following (without quotes) "Bush hid the facts"
3. Save the file as WHATEVER name you want (I called it tra.txt myself)
4. Close Notepad.
5. Open the file from wherever you saved it.
The bush text should be gone and in its place will be: 畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴
Note: it works with any 4-letter-word SPACE 3-letter-word SPACE 3-letter-word SPACE 5-letter-word

The quick brown fox feature:
Open up microsoft word.
Type =rand(200,99)
Hit enter
On my machine (English) it comes up with:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.This fills up 255 pages.
On bonz's machine (German):
Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern.
On Cisken1's machine (Dutch):
Pa's wijze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct.
On SupSuper's machine (Portugese):
Amostra: abcdef ghijkl mnopqr stuvw xyz áàãâ ç éèê íóõú.This fills 280 pages.
On kikumbob's machine (Word 2007 beta):
On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly.This fills up 543 pages.
On Metal Alex's machine (Spanish):
El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi.
On WormOfFire's machine (Swedish):
Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor.

pilot62
17 Jun 2006, 10:44
Ooooooooooooooh.

bonz
17 Jun 2006, 10:48
The censoring notepad glitch
Very weird.
The quick brown fox glitch
That's not a glitch at all. It's an easy way to get dummy text.

Also you might have notice that it's the same sentence you get when you preview fonts in your C:\windows\Fonts folder.
Every letter of the alphabet is used once. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

The German sentence is a different one, btw:
Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern.
Though it has the letter A multiple times, while missing out on Ä,Ö,Ü and ß.
This one does:
Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor quer über den großen Sylter Deich.

Muzer
17 Jun 2006, 10:58
edited :)

thomasp
17 Jun 2006, 10:59
So, what happens in Notepad?

Muzer
17 Jun 2006, 11:00
Will PM you.

EDIT:
PMed

Cisken1
17 Jun 2006, 15:19
Heh, nice! Already knew the =rand thing.

Oh and in dutch the "all letter sentence" you see when previeuwing fonts is

Pa's wijze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct.

Cyclaws
17 Jun 2006, 16:33
Bleh, known about this for a while now.

Here's you for Mac-e people (Thomas... :p): http://www.wrtpeeps.dotgeek.org/bin/bush/

SupSuper
17 Jun 2006, 20:44
In Word all I get is this, filling up 280 pages:
Amostra: abcdef ghijkl mnopqr stuvw xyz áàãâ ç éèê íóõú.

kikumbob
17 Jun 2006, 22:34
I can go one better. I have word 2007 beta and the document is full of some sort of help text 543 pages long. The beginning of which is:

On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly.

Edit: Muzer could you PM me the notepad one? It wont work for me.

Muzer
18 Jun 2006, 08:12
I'll put the answers in the first post now.

Metal Alex
18 Jun 2006, 14:18
lol! this is what I get: (Spanish)

El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi.

which translated means something like:

"The fast hindu bat happily ate little thistle and kiwi" O_o

Pigbuster
18 Jun 2006, 16:13
Hmm...
畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴 is chinese (If you have a chinese text filter) but my translator can't figure out what it means.

Metal Alex
18 Jun 2006, 22:16
I guess that the combinations must be some kind of pronunciation... I guess that that Bush thing hasn't any sense in chinese...

SupSuper
19 Jun 2006, 03:14
My machine is portuguese, btw.

MtlAngelus
19 Jun 2006, 07:49
Hmm...
畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴 is chinese (If you have a chinese text filter) but my translator can't figure out what it means.
Something to do with touching a reflection :p

WormOfFire
20 Jun 2006, 21:43
Weird :)
I get this,fills up 227 pages.
Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor.
(swedish)

WormGod
20 Jun 2006, 22:34
Actually that censoring thing doesn't work with any 4-letter word, then 3, etc., it just works with 'Bush hid the facts'.

Weird.

bonz
20 Jun 2006, 23:48
Actually that censoring thing doesn't work with any 4-letter word, then 3, etc., it just works with 'Bush hid the facts'.
It does work, but only on the first save of the document.

Xinos
25 Jun 2006, 10:51
no... it didn't work at all for me. Because my notepad is FLAWLESS!

>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
It tests that all the keys are working on you're keyboard, I think.

Edit: txt thing did work after all :O
But it only works if you create the txt first. I opened notepad from the txt file i have on my taskbar, and made a new document. That way does not work.

Edit 2:
Very interesting,

Bush hid the facts: 畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴 (babelfish's to: Bi?? touches 琠 敨 reflects □□)
Fool saw him dance: 潦汯猠睡栠浩搠湡散 (babelfish's to: 潦 □□rests □is vast 搠 □disperses)

This prooves that notepad is "translating" or at least doing the same thing every time you run a certain sentence trough it.