Talk:Bush hid the facts

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Contents 1 Bug 2 Cleanup 3 What do the Chinese characters say? 4 Sounds like a lie 5 Removal of "Explanation" section. 6 Removal of the comment at the bottom 7 Not a notepad-only bug?

[edit] Bug

It's not really a bug. It's just a best effort guess that's not good enough. --193.43.89.206 18:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

It's still a bug. Software bug: "A software bug (or just "bug") is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended (e.g., producing an incorrect result)." --Goblin ^›talk 19:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Why is there a 'cleanup' sticker on this, it seems fine. I am removing it.Seth J. Frantzman 18:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What do the Chinese characters say?

just a nonsensical string —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.174.12.18 (talk) 22:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sounds like a lie

I don't buy it. If this sentence were terminated because of the amount of letters in the four words, it's all a lie. I tried typing "reagan hid the facts" and the same happened. The only thing I can think is that Microsoft doesn't like people typing negative things about their favourite politicians when editing an html-page, or what looks like it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.163.25.176 (talk) 13:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Well it does work with Reagan too, so the bug is more extensive that originally thought. Odd. violet/riga (t) 14:05, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of "Explanation" section.

I removed the "Explanation" section from this page because technically, it makes no sense, or is incomplete. The section read as follows (wrapped so it doesn't cause long lines - an unedited version is in this page's source):

==Explanation==
Text files containing [[Unicode]] [[UTF-16]]-encoded Unicode start with a
"[[Byte-Order Mark]]" (BOM), which is a 2-byte flag that tells a reader how the
following UTF-16 data is encoded.  When you save a file in Notepad, by default you
are saving to 8-bit Extended [[ASCII]].  When the file is opened again, the bit
pattern tells notepad that you are reading from 16-bit [[Unicode]].  This causes
the eighteen 8-bit [[ASCII]] characters to be displayed as nine 16-bit [[Unicode]]
characters.
'''
Verified by JT (KNUSTComputerScience2004)'''

It certainly seems as though there's a misinterpretation of the file as UTF-16, but there's a vital part missing from this; the BOM itself isn't present in the text entered, or in the saved file. (The BOM being U+FEFF). Therefore, the explanation that the BOM is causing this makes no sense.

Maybe something in the text is causing Notepad to mistakenly think that it's UTF-16 and that it found a BOM, but the explanation doesn't mention that and it's technically incomplete. I don't know what the bug is in Notepad, but I have confirmed it myself. --Ciaran H 15:57, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Notepad calls IsTextUnicode, which runs a heuristic on the text. (Heuristic is programmerese ≈ educated guess.) Sometimes it guesses wrong, and the likelyhood of guessing wrong is bigger for short texts. Shinobu (talk) 19:55, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of the comment at the bottom

I removed that "This arcticle is bullshit" comment at the bottom of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.180.56.34 (talk) 15:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not a notepad-only bug?

I saved "bush hid the facts" with Metapad and it still bugged when I closed and reopened the text file. The exact error message I received: "Detected non-ANSI characters in this Unicode file. Data will be lost if this file is saved!" When I hit OK the text became nine question marks. Does this occur with other text editors, perhaps across operating systems? 71.115.6.93 (talk) 04:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)