<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>Hello Guys!</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">I am trying to open an XML file from a game. I want to get the data from it. But for some reason, the encoding is broken and I can’t read it. Here is what I see:</p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1598680399818-encoding.png" alt="encoding.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
<p dir="auto">I am trying to open it on <strong>Windows 10</strong> with Notepad ++ 7.8.8</p>
<p dir="auto">I don’t know what to do. Can you help me?</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19920/how-to-solve-the-encoding-issue-when-reading-a-file-in-notepad</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:17:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19920.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 05:55:39 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:44:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/anatoliy-sergeev" aria-label="Profile: Anatoliy-Sergeev">@<bdi>Anatoliy-Sergeev</bdi></a>  and <a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> ,</p>
<p dir="auto">As <a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/andrecool-68" aria-label="Profile: andrecool-68">@<bdi>andrecool-68</bdi></a> pointed out, your question has <strong>nothing</strong> to do with Notepad++.  You are trying to hack a binary file from a game.  Notepad++ is a text editor.  Notepad++ cannot be expected to be able to read every proprietary binary file.  No text editor, whether it’s Notepad++ or any other text editor, should be expected to read a proprietary binary file.  Notepad++ cannot interpret this binary file as text, even if you or the game designer lies and calls it an XML file.  It does not matter whether it’s because the file is encoded or encrypted or compressed or just a proprietary binary format: it is not a text file, and Notepad++ cannot help you read it as text.</p>
<p dir="auto">Please stop this discussion of game hacking here.  It is off topic for this forum.</p>
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<p dir="auto">@Анатолий-Сергеев и @Иван-Бондаренко ,</p>
<p dir="auto">Как отметил <a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/andrecool-68" aria-label="Profile: andrecool-68">@<bdi>andrecool-68</bdi></a>, ваш вопрос не имеет ничего общего с Блокнотом++.  Вы пытаетесь взломать бинарный файл из игры.  Блокнот++ - это текстовый редактор.  Нельзя ожидать, что Блокнот++ сможет прочитать каждый проприетарный двоичный файл.  Ни от какого текстового редактора, будь то Блокнот++ или любой другой текстовый редактор, нельзя ожидать, что он сможет прочитать проприетарный двоичный файл.  Блокнот не может интерпретировать этот двоичный файл как текст, даже если вы или дизайнер игры лжёте и называет его XML-файлом.  Не имеет значения, потому ли это, что файл закодирован или зашифрован, или сжат, или просто несвободный двоичный формат: это не текстовый файл, и Блокнот++ не может помочь вам прочитать его как текст.</p>
<p dir="auto">Пожалуйста, прекратите обсуждение взлома игры здесь.  Оно находится вне темы этого форума.</p>
<p dir="auto">Переведено с помощью <a href="http://www.DeepL.com/Translator" rel="nofollow ugc">www.DeepL.com/Translator</a> (бесплатная версия)</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57293</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57293</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[PeterJones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:44:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:23:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> Привет. Последние несколько дней тоже занимаюсь декодированием этого файла. Тут явно что-то не так с кодировкой. Файл не зашифрован. Если будут подвижки, расскажи здесь как решил проблему. Если у меня получится, я тоже отпишусь.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57291</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57291</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anatoliy Sergeev]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:23:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:05:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/andrecool-68" aria-label="Profile: andrecool-68">@<bdi>andrecool-68</bdi></a> Я прекрасно знаю, для чего этот веб сайт. И адресом я не ошибся. Последний мой вопрос был конкретно к тебе. Нет, так нет. В любом случае, спасибо.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57216</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57216</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Bondarenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:05:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:00:07 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> Этот форум повещен только программе Notepad++, а не взлому сайтов, программ или игр!<br />
Юноша …ты вообще ошибся адресом!</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57215</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57215</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[andrecool-68]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:00:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:47:24 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> Это все детские глупости, и не стоит тратить время на бестолковые затеи!</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57212</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57212</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[andrecool-68]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:47:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:38:48 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> Для чего вы хотите его открыть, какой смысл этих действий?</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57210</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[andrecool-68]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:38:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:20:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> Here is an example of the “Exeinfo Pe” utility<br />
I renamed file-TXT to file-XML, but the utility shows the real face of the file … that it is a fake file-TXT</p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1598854807109-%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9.png" alt="Безымянный.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57208</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57208</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[andrecool-68]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:20:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:10:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> Using the “Exeinfo Pe” utility, you can analyze what your file is packed with, because it really doesn’t look like a regular “XML”</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57207</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57207</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[andrecool-68]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:10:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:04:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/andrecool-68" aria-label="Profile: andrecool-68">@<bdi>andrecool-68</bdi></a> Thank you for trying to help. But this doesn’t work.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57206</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57206</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Bondarenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:04:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:02:47 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/peterjones" aria-label="Profile: PeterJones">@<bdi>PeterJones</bdi></a> said in <a href="/post/57186">How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++?</a>:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I’d recommend going to a forum for your game, and asking whether it’s possible to convert the assetcatalog.xml into an actual XML file. (or, if they say, “it’s a plaintext file, encoding with XXX encoding”, we can help you convince Notepad++ to read that encoding, once we know what it is)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thank you! This answer helped me a lot! I will try to find everything out.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57205</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57205</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Bondarenko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:02:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:16:30 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ivan-bondarenko" aria-label="Profile: Ivan-Bondarenko">@<bdi>Ivan-Bondarenko</bdi></a> ,</p>
<p dir="auto">Honestly, I would say that the filename is lying to you.  That’s not how the file would look using the wrong encoding.  (Based on the fact that there are some obvious plaintext snippets, like <code>objects/crafting/props/...</code>).  My guess is that it’s not actually a text-based XML file, and is really some proprietary binary encoding – as to why they called it “xml”, I don’t know.  (Either that, or they’ve taken an XML file and done some proprietary encryption or compression, without changing the filename, to prevent users from hacking their game.  But a full/normal encryption or even compression wouldn’t leave chunks of legible text, which is why I’m guessing proprietary binary format.)</p>
<p dir="auto">I’d recommend going to a forum for your game, and asking whether it’s possible to convert the assetcatalog.xml into an <em>actual</em> XML file.  (or, if they say, “it’s a plaintext file, encoding with XXX encoding”, we can help you convince Notepad++ to read that encoding, once we know what it is)</p>
<p dir="auto">Good luck.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57186</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57186</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[PeterJones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:16:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to solve the Encoding Issue when reading a file in Notepad ++? on Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:15:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Try to rediscover line ends and file encoding</p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1598685283298-2.png" alt="2.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1598685283323-1.png" alt="1.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
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