Help, what's this?

[spacemanspiff]

I'm trying to fix a broken click counter using my severly limited knowledge of programming. I'm trying to read a file, but when I open it, I get jibberish, like squares and y's with dots over them and other wired characters. The file has a .pl extension, so I thought it would be a perl file. All I need to do is determine where it's looking for some other files, so I can put them there.

Thanks,
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