Thread: How to read binary img file

Originally Posted by Alpo

It will depend on what you are looking at it with, I would imagine. If you look at it with as text, you will see whatever the bits corresponding characters are in ASCII or UNICODE or whatever. If you look at it with a hex editor, you most likely see hexadecimal, which you could use to pick out specific things if you know the format of the data. It is all still the same data on the binary level.

You need to learn the fundamentals ASCII, UNICODE, character sets. Binary ASCII is encoded according to the ASCII character set from 0-255, ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia