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

  • vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Yes. Decoding a base64 encoded string will give you back the exact original data.

    Importantly though, this isn’t what you’re seeing when you open files in a text editor as you describe in your original post, and if you copied the text of those files and saved a new copy it’s very likely that it would not reproduce correctly.