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I agree that using explicit types makes the most sense and I personally prefer it to alleviate any potential ambiguity. Most of all I hope you are interested in adding this capability to HxD

Agreed! No need re-inventing a method though, take advantage of a format/structure that is already available --

There are many types of encoding that would be nice to have in the data inspector and it obviously doesn't make sense to add them all within the Data Inspector frame. With that said, perhaps a scripting / plugin capability would enhance this? If not a plugin/scripting capability, the below code ...