What are these codes mean? Unix?

This looks like the output of some unix program to me.
The codes you see are how the computers display vealues that do not equate to a normal ASCII letter or character.
ASCII is the standard way to encode text as digital information.
A single ASCII code can have up to 256 different values, which is more than all the letters (capital & lower case), number digits, punctuation and special characters like $ and &.  So how does a computer display values that dont match those standard characters?  Well that depends on the software, here is what UNIX does:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character

Can you try this:

strings <your_file>

and post a file with the output you get?

Also try:

file <your_file>

this is to let the OS try and determine the file type.

What OS are you running btw?

This means your terminal type is set incorrectly,

try export TERM=vt100

How are you opening/displaying the file?

@TeknikDev - No feedback on questions that are asked nor a closing comment from your side? Your sceenshot is showing a cursor on the 3rd line, looks like you're trying to edit your (binary) file with some editor.

Kindly reply to questions/suggestion next time. Thanks.

gerwinjansen
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