Bush hid the facts
Bush hid the facts is a common name for a bug present in some versions of Microsoft Windows, which causes text encoded in ASCII to be interpreted as if it were UTF-16LE, resulting in garbled text. When the string "Bush hid the facts", without quotes, was put in a new Notepad document and saved, closed, and reopened, the nonsensical sequence of Chinese characters "" would appear instead. While "Bush hid the facts" is the sentence most commonly presented on the Internet to induce the error, the bug can be triggered by other strings with letters and spaces  in the same positions, for example . Other sequences trigger the bug as well, including simply the text . The bug occurs when the string is passed to the Win32 charset detection function codice_1. codice_1 sees that the bytes match the UTF-16LE encoding of assigned Unicode code points, concludes that the text is valid UTF-16LE, and returns codice_3, and the application then incorrectly interprets the text as UTF-16LE. The bug had existed since codice_1 was introduced with in 1994, but was not discovered until early 2004. Many text editors and tools exhibit this behavior on Windows because they use codice_1 to determine  the encoding of text files. As of Windows Vista, Notepad has been modified to use a different detection algorithm that does not exhibit the bug, but codice_1 remains unchanged in the operating system, so any other tools that use the function are still affected. Workarounds. Several workarounds exist for this bug: