If you're in *nix land, you can also try cat -vet and od commands to look for strange characters in files.
--- echo S 1 [ Y V U | perl -ane 'print reverse map { $_ = chr(ord($_)-1) } @F;' Warning: Any code posted by tuxz0r is untested, unless otherwise stated, and is used at your own risk.
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