Things You Can’t Say in Notepad
Try this out, it’s pretty strange.
Things You Can’t Say in Notepad | Threat Level from Wired.com
The reason for this is that Notepad tries to be smart and use an appropriate character set and encoding for every file you open. However, txt files, unlike XML for example, have no explicit character set indication, so Notepad has to guess by statistical analysis, and can sometimes get it wrong.
Funny, though.
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