Thank you for your explanation. Admittedly, I was not thinking of plain text. I was thinking of the first option with the wrong interpretation of the word binar

Thank you for your explanation. Admittedly, I was not thinking of plain text. I was thinking of the first option with the wrong interpretation of the word binary, which made me automatically jump to conclusion that binaries are basically 1s and 0s[1] and clearly it is not that simple. Thank you everyone. It feels like today I re-learned something I misunderstood a long time ago. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/364789/why-isnt-a-binary-file-shown-as-0s-and-1s https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/364789/why-isnt-a-...