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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Can any file and its data be converted to a String or plaintext?

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Can any file and its data be converted to a String or plaintext?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

I’ve noticed some files I opened in a text editor have all kinds of crazy unrenderable chars

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You’re looking for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding Which explains the funny characters.
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    Ace Ventura on lemmy trying to understand file encodings

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