Sublime returning binary looking text from semi-plain text

Question

Examining some files (log files, *.ldb files which are backups created by a chrome extension and so on) I find that some of those files are seen OK by Mac's QuickLook:

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But sublime open them like this:

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Explanations? Fixes?

Answer 1

In ST3's default preferences is the following:

// Files containing null bytes are opened as hexadecimal by default
"enable_hexadecimal_encoding": true,

so I guess your ldb files contain null bytes. Simply set this to false in your user preferences, and ST should try to display the file as text.