On 14/09/2021 16:57, Frederic Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I generate a text file using wpscan and > (on a different Linux OS). > I copied the file on my Fedora desktop and here is the issue: > > cat file.txt displays well > > vi file.txt (or meld or..) shows me unicode values at places such as: > > ^[[+]^[ URL: xxx instead of [+] URL: xxxx > > The file is UTF-8 encoded and the system (both systems are running > linux) also use UTF-8 system wide. > > The same thing didn't happen one month ago, so I guess some updates > broke something, either on the system or in wpscan. Google didn't > help me at all. > > So any idea how I could "convert" back that file to show nice > characters, and eventually do you have any idea what could be wrong > on the other system (deb based)? > I have no experience with wpscan.  This is a "World Press" thingy, right? A bit of googling suggests the "extraneous" characters you're seeing are indicating "color". So, try adding the --no-color parameter to your wpscan command.