"Bast" wrote:

> Ant wrote:
>> If the file is named simpl[RLO]txt.exe where [RLO] is the override
>> character it will be treated as an executable no matter how it appears
>> in an Explorer window; e.g. as simplexe.txt.
>
> Even in windows 8, it can only work if extensions are ignored.

This is nothing to do with whether extensions are hidden or not. It's
about using the right-to-left override unicode character in a filename
to make it appear to have an extension it does not have. It works when
extensions for registered file types are not hidden.