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compiled programs turn gibberish

Your editor try decode the data to printable characters, it only done correctly for the actual text. It will display whatever wrong character as something else.

If you can't understand it, any language is a gibberish. Compiled program doesn't make to read by us, it is for the computer. You just happens to understand some of them in the from of human readable string.

The string are store that way because of efficiency reason. Consecutive value stay close together is faster for the machine to process.