Comments on: Three ways to enter Unicode characters in Windows http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/08/17/three-ways-to-enter-unicode-characters-in-windows/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:22:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Four patterns in Windows keyboard shortcuts — The Endeavour http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/08/17/three-ways-to-enter-unicode-characters-in-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-26992 Four patterns in Windows keyboard shortcuts — The Endeavour Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:18:03 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/08/17/three-ways-to-enter-unicode-characters-in-windows/#comment-26992 [...] Three ways to enter Unicode characters in Windows Readable path listings Integrating the clipboard and the command line ? X [...] [...] Three ways to enter Unicode characters in Windows Readable path listings Integrating the clipboard and the command line ? X [...]

]]> By: John Venier http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/08/17/three-ways-to-enter-unicode-characters-in-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-4314 John Venier Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:15:41 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/08/17/three-ways-to-enter-unicode-characters-in-windows/#comment-4314 Interesting, thanks for the tip! One funny side effect of one of the ways Windows handles Unicode is that if a plain text file which has only one line (no end-of-line) and has the pattern \w{4} \w{3} \w{3} \w{5} plus as many space-delimited five-character words as you like thereafter will be interpreted as Unicode, rendering gibberish. Some clever soul noticed that "Bush hid the facts" matches this pattern and created a political conspiracy urban legend with it. Interesting, thanks for the tip!

One funny side effect of one of the ways Windows handles Unicode is that if a plain text file which has only one line (no end-of-line) and has the pattern \w{4} \w{3} \w{3} \w{5} plus as many space-delimited five-character words as you like thereafter will be interpreted as Unicode, rendering gibberish.

Some clever soul noticed that “Bush hid the facts” matches this pattern and created a political conspiracy urban legend with it.

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