Problem reading AndroidManifest

Hi, I'm not able to read and change AndroidManifest.xml, it is unreadable, steps to reproduce:

apktool d myapp.apk

When I enter the directory of the extracted apk AndroidManifest is not readable. What happens?  is apktool skipping the decoding of arsc resources?  if so why.  I installed apktool correctly, did all the steps as indicated