Opening Images in Notepad

what is the code called? noob here

[mahlon]

I don't know what to call the code you see in notepad when opening an images with it.

Thanks!

[bcolflesh]

Binary?

[odin]

it's not binary, binary looks like this 010010000 thats ten in binary.
my gues is that it is the compression algorithum alomg with all the image data colour codes, pixel locations ect.

[victor]

What you are seeing is ASCII -- same as any other file in Notepad.

But most of the bytes in an image don't map to a displayable ASCII character. Hence the blobs and stuff.

But if the image format has any sort of text elements (some do) you should be able to see that in among the gibberish.