Tag: Unicode
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Free software hex editor
I have noticed that my free software hex editor (hexxed) – which is licensed under the GNU GPL – does not really come up in any searches, so here’s another entry to boost it. It’s a bit crude, but it does some things well (e.g., display unicode and switch endianness) and it will run anywhere…
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Dear MI5, why don’t you use my hex editor?
This is a semi-serious point! Well, British security service MI5 helped to successfully convict three would-be terrorists Richard Dart (30) of Ealing, Imran Mahmood (22) of Northolt and Jahangir Alom (26) of Stratford by what looks like scanning through temporarily (?) cached fragments of Word documents. This is a good thing. But they have been using an 8-bit…
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Making some progress with the hex editor
Well, the hex editor still feels like a death march project but “I’ve started, so I’ll finish” and I have made a little bit of progress today, and it handles unicode characters (see screenshot). I am not aware of any hex editors doing that (though I am sure some do), so it feels like a…
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