Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
what type of file has stuff similar to this? 4Š`52eáŸ1Ò"þzi308.797Á5eFrF$6.?25,8921vWbe?
i've seen it before when opening certain file types, what is it?
2 Answers
- DavidLv 41 decade ago
The answer is either a binary file, a file that's encoded in a binary form (1's and 0's) or a file that is encrypted (scrambled) to prevent against unauthorized access. Lots of files are encoded in binary, such as program files (exe), Microsoft Word files (doc), dynamic linking libraries (dll) and such things -- if you open an image file (JPEG, GIF, etc) in notepad then it will be scrambled looking too, because it's in a form that's meant to be interpreted by an image viewer and then converted into colors. Binary files arent designed to be understood by a human, they are 'written in the language' that the computer can understand.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
oh, it looks like impossible. why dont you forget it and look at some pictures instead..
