[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Notepad versus Geany (on Windows): Notepad wins (#2804)

[elextr]

Duplicate of #618 #1508 #1708 #2081 #2654

Geany will not load a binary file, thats why you got the message.  Geany is C, in C a zero byte indicates the end of a string, so most functionality will only see the contents up to the first zero byte, and binaries are littered with zero bytes.  So no it can't be "enabled" without major work.

Notepad++ is C++ where strings can contain zero bytes, so its "easy" for it to use binaries.

And nobody is in competition, so nobody "wins" just different projects have different capabilities.



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