u¾Á½çA What kind of characters are these? They are in an .exe game; how do I convert them to real letters?
Any program that converts these strange ASCII characters to plain English, and directions as to how to use the program, would be deeply appreciated! (I found all of the characters in the symbol section of Microsoft Word, so I know that they are ASCII characters).
Update:To be more specific, the strange characters are also subtitles--plain old English in disguise.
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Yes, they are characters. But from the description you tried to open a .exe file and edit it with Microsoft Word or notepad. Unfortunately, this is not how you program.
A .exe consists of a specialized code that only Windows or the operating system can understand. The numbers do not match up to plain text that we can read. Microsoft Word tries, but it fails and ends up putting garbage that is as close as it can get.
When you write a program, you use normal coding language but then the code is compiled. It makes the file smaller and converts it into something the computer knows how to run.
All characters are in the range of 0-255. So are all computer instructions and data. What you're looking at may be characters, it may be instructions and it may be data. You can't tell by looking at it in a text editor. (Chances are it's either instructions or data - characters in an exe file look like characters - an A looks like A, not like something weird.)