If you create a file in Windows Notepad with the string “bush hid the facts”, save it and reopen it, it shows you boxes. Same with “this app can break”. Here’s why. It has nothing to do with George Bush or Microsoft. It’s just that these strings are in ASCII, but they also constitute valid Unicode strings, and Notepad guesses (wrongly) that they are in fact Chinese Unicode files.
Notepad easter egg is really a bug
I explain that the Notepad 'easter egg' is actually an encoding bug. Strings like 'bush hid the facts' are misidentified as Chinese Unicode, causing them to display as boxes due to flaws in the detection algorithm.