In some cases the space character is shown as ␠ for clarity. The column ISO 8859-1 shows how the file signature appears when interpreted as text in the common ISO 8859-1 encoding, with unprintable characters represented as the control code abbreviation or symbol, or codepage 1252 character where available, or a box otherwise. However, sometimes the file signature can be recognizable when interpreted as text. If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will be unintelligible. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes. This is a list of file signatures, data used to identify or verify the content of a file. JSTOR ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).
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