what Encoding option to view an alternate data stream?
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I’m trying to view the contents of an alternate data stream in Notepad++, but I haven’t figured out how to use the Encoding menu options to do so. I loaded the contents of the stream in another program - it recognized the encoding as “UTF-16 BE with BOM”. I saved the stream to a txt file. When I open it in Notepad++, and Notepad++ recognizes the encoding as “UTF-16 BE BOM”. But the text displays as follows:
But if I activate the HEX-Editor plugin, the text becomes visible:
My question is, just out of curiosity, is there an option I can select from the Encoding tab to show this text, without using the HEX-Editor? I have tried different options to do so but have not succeeded.
Thanks for any help!
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Based on your hex editor capture, the text in the file appears to be 8-bit, not UTF-16, even though it does begin with a byte order mark. Try Encoding | ANSI.
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Lots of NUL characters…probably the hex dump is going to be the best you can get.
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