Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.
Gedit is a text editor, therefore it stands to reason that it tries to
"protect" users from accidentally opening a binary file in the editor,
which might result in a less-knowledgeable user damaging it.
In order to get the functionality you need, may I suggest using a full-
blown binary/hex editor such as ghex or bless. These are much better
suited to the task.
Also, if all you need is to look at strings contained in a binary file,
the "strings" command might be of help. You can use it to generate a
text file without extraneous characters and then analyze that using
gedit.
Please let me know if some of the programs I described help in
fulfilling your requirement.
Thanks!
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Gedit won't let me edit binary files to look for text
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