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# Using the code page compare dialog

There are multiple options to represent text as binary data. Nowadays, often Unicode-based encodings like UTF-8 or UTF-16 are used, but still many ASCII and EBCDIC-based code pages are in use.
To find out which code page is the right one to decode your file or just some bytes in it, use the code page compare dialog.

Simply select some text, Ctrl-click the selection and click Compare code pages...

If there was some text selected in the hex view, those bytes are copied for you in the Hex field. But you can edit both the Text and the Hex values, they are converted then using the selected code page.

By clicking the table headers you can choose which column to sort.
The Confidence column gives you a guess how well that encoding might fit for the hex values.
The Text representation column is a translation of the Hex: field using the code page in the Code page column.
The Hex representation column is a translation of the Text: field using the code page in the Code page column.

## See also

Histogram Dialog