common (on mac at least) is the notion of seeing a 4 byte (or 8 byte) value interpreted as 4 (or 8) ascii characters.  more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FourCC note this applies to 8-char code as well.  would be very nice to be able  to see, eg: 'piIx' instead of 1885948280, or see 'soID' instead of 1936673092. i'd implement this myself if i knew how