title: trouble opening database text file (not human readable)
body: <p>I need a text file of world cities, and the countries they belong to. I followed a previous stackoverflow question to this page: <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/worldcities" rel="nofollow">http://www.maxmind.com/app/worldcities</a></p>
  
  <p>I downloaded the 33MB worldcitiespop.txt.gz, and unzipped it. I tried opening the resulting file (worldcitiespop.txt) using gedit and emacs. (I'm using Ubuntu 11.10). Gedit doesn't manage to open it, and on emacs I see a lot of backslashes followed by numbers, with a few letter here and there. Looking at the file's properties in nautilus says that it's plain text.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how I can open this file so that it's human readable?</p>