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<p>Duplicate of <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="102208045" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/618" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/618/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/618">#618</a> <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="232808530" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1508" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1508/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1508">#1508</a> <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="279102732" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1708" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1708/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1708">#1708</a> <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="406960856" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2081" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/2081/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2081">#2081</a> <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="740161068" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2654" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/2654/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2654">#2654</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Notepad++ is C++ where strings can contain zero bytes, so its "easy" for it to use binaries.</p>
<p>And nobody is in competition, so nobody "wins" just different projects have different capabilities.</p>

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