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Yesterday, I edited my tex document as usual, but today I opened up the file and found gibberish. Someone please tell me if I can recover the original non gibberish file. Oh, good news is that the pdf that was generated yesterday is in tact, and I saved a back up before trying to fudge with maybe fixing this crap, so if all else fails, I can retype everything from scratch...which I really would absolutely hate to do, because this file is LONG.

EDIT: No, I do not want to know how to convert PDF to Tex (because I know that is nearly impossible, and I would be better off retyping everything), all I want to know if it is possible to recover the TEX file from what it looks like below.

The gibberish file

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    Possible duplicate of How to convert PDF to (La)TeX? – siracusa May 21 '19 at 11:30
  • @siracusa It will never work 100% correct. I think this is only an issue of encoding. – user156344 May 21 '19 at 11:56
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    The encoding at the bottom of the editor window is UTF-8. Is that what you saved the file in? – Matthew Leingang May 21 '19 at 12:06
  • The thing is, we already have a lot of these questions, e.g.here, here, here or here. The one which offers the most information is the one linked to as a duplicate. I'm not sure having another question of that sort will bring any new insights. – siracusa May 21 '19 at 12:06
  • @MatthewLeingang yes, I believe that is the usual encoding I use, but I wouldn't 100% know. – kalikinik May 21 '19 at 13:08

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