Eli5: Wtf is all the jargon in a games files

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So if you go into some of the files for a game (or most applications I think) you find notepad files with endless pages of weird ass symbols. Wtf are they and why are they used?

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That’s just data that’s encoded in something besides a text encoding. It’s used for literally anything the programmer may want to store in a file. The data could be absolutely anything.

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