# What language is this (coming from modbus serial readers)?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264>\
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**Created:** [7 August 2020 12:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264 "2020-08-07T12:58:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![edwardr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@edwardr](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/edwardr)\
**Post date:** [7 August 2020 12:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264/1 "2020-08-07T12:58:04Z")

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So I`ve been seeing a lot of modbus serial readers on Node red raw data written as something like this ---  
,Q ?KMBac[9LhB)@

* * *

Any idea what this language is? Even better how to configure it into binary

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**Author:** ![ristomatti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ristomatti/32/5857_2.png) [@ristomatti](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ristomatti)\
**Post date:** [8 August 2020 00:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264/2 "2020-08-08T00:09:49Z")

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I've edited the topic to be a bit more descriptive to help people in know notice it.

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**Author:** ![ristomatti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ristomatti/32/5857_2.png) [@ristomatti](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ristomatti)\
**Post date:** [8 August 2020 00:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264/3 "2020-08-08T00:13:42Z")

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Is the second thread you've created ([Modbus Array Readings and Conversion](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/modbus-array-readings-and-conversion/31228) about the same issue?

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**Author:** ![edwardr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@edwardr](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/edwardr)\
**Post date:** [17 September 2020 13:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264/4 "2020-09-17T13:26:32Z")

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its unicode.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [1 October 2020 13:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-language-is-this-coming-from-modbus-serial-readers/31264/5 "2020-10-01T13:26:34Z")

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Closed on 1 October 2020 13:26 UTC

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