How to open up a .nfb file

Hello all,

Can somebody help me with opening up a .nfb file in a human readable
format. I have read previous articles under this topic already. And I
am stuck at the point where they talk about "removing alt-128 chars"
I have no idea what that is.

Though I am able to restore a .nfb back to a phone. But my question is
can we view the contents of this file in any way ?
Any kind of help is highly appreciated.

Hema Tripathi

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Hema Tripathi wrote:

> Can somebody help me with opening up a .nfb file in a human readable
> format. I have read previous articles under this topic already. And I
> am stuck at the point where they talk about "removing alt-128 chars"
> I have no idea what that is.

Open it with a text editor that supports search and replace. Then press
alt, keep it pressed, and press 128 on the numeric keypad with numlock on
(using the numbers above the letter keys won't work). Replace it by
nothing.

The nfb file is in unicode. When represented in ASCII, each unicode char
is shown as 2 chars, usually a normal ASCII char and a char with ASCII
value 128.

BTW, I only tested this with textmode editors: QEdit, a DOS editor, and vi
on Linux. I don't know how notepad or wordpad on windows deal with this.

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Thanks, for all the help Johan. It works perfect with vi. I'll try and
test with MS Word as well now.

Regards
Hema