[eluser]pickupman[/eluser]
Ion cubed code would be like opening a binary file like an image or mp3 in notepad. You wouldn't reading thing out of it. The server would also need a server module to decompile/run ion cubed code.
A little thought is if you see regular php code, but it looks messed up, you may want to use a php beautifer. It will basically rewrite line breaks after ; and properly indent the code. Some people will compress there code by eliminating all white space in the file.