Question

I have problem trying to interpret this line:

5761 6920 4D61 6E0D 0A

Is there anyway to interpret this into a human readable text format?

Answer 1

I’m submitting this as a separate answer as I am going to show how I arrived at it without the aid of an online service, and it is generic to any type of data you have a hex representation of.

You can enter the hexadecimal text into a file like so:

0000000: 5761 6920 4d61 6e0d 0a

You can put 8 groups of 4 hex digits on a line that way. Then you can use the xxd program (available on both UNIX-like and Windows systems and can be installed as part of the standard vi editor).

You can then extract the text or data like so:

xxd -r < sample.txt > sample.data

In this case, it yields this on my system:

mbt@redpepper:~$ cat sample.txt
0000000: 5761 6920 4d61 6e0d 0a
mbt@redpepper:~$ cat sample.data
Wai Man

You should be aware of certain types of non-visible characters, too. You can refer to an ASCII table to determine what they are. Furthermore, if you have an ASCII table handy and know that a given source of hex digits is an encoded stream of ASCII bytes, you can do the translation by hand, though it will take a while.