Discrepancy with cat and plist files

I'm finding some strange and unexplainable discrepancies with the cat command, and I'm hoping someone knows what's going on.
I've got two different .plist files that I'm trying to get the contents of using cat. It works perfectly with one, while the other outputs a bunch of weird characters rather than showing all the XML tags. The two files have exactly the same XML headers, are both UTF-8, etc. Why the difference with cat?
The files in question are:
/private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.[UUID].plist
The former works fine, the latter does not.
Any ideas?

plists can be stored in binary format.
I believe 'plutil' can convert them from XML to binary (& back).
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/plutil.1.html
I can't recollect if plistbuddy is binary aware…
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/ man8/PlistBuddy.8.html

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