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by gjvr 1962 days ago
ASCII? UTF-8? UTF-16? ... ...
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Dylan16807 1962 days ago
Anyone using the words "plain text" for a file had better mean either ASCII or UTF-8.

And for almost all purposes these days it should be the latter.

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user-the-name 1962 days ago
Shift-JIS? GB18030? KOI8-R?

"Plain text" does not really exist.

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Triv888 1962 days ago
lol... yes. UTF-512 should be enough for everybody!
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_kst_ 1962 days ago
UTF-640K?
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