Editing a text document fills it with random characters on other devices

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I just discovered Synchthing and tried setting up a basic system to test. I created a folder on my desktop machine with an empty text file in it and synced it to my phone - worked without a problem.

Then I opened that text document on my phone and added some text, saved, closed. This is where the problem occurred. Once the document synced back to my desktop, when I open it on that machine, the text document is just filled with 12kb of random characters. The only readable text in the entire thing is on the first line, where “[Content_Types.xml]” can be read among the rest of the random characters.

The interesting thing is that the document opens fine on my phone still, and I can read the text I added without issue.

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That appears to be a thing in OpenOffice XML documents. Probably the software on the phone changed the document format from text to docx.

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