Hex Workshop

The ASCII pane fails to correctly render UTF-16LE strings without manual "Endian Swap" operations. Modern binaries increasingly use UTF-8; the editor lacks a dedicated UTF-8 decoding view.

Hex Workshop functions like a calculator for binary data. You can select a block of data and perform mathematical operations on it, such as: hex workshop

Developers creating binary file formats (e.g., custom archive formats for games or proprietary database formats) use Hex Workshop to visualize and debug the files their software generates. The ASCII pane fails to correctly render UTF-16LE