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by Gormo 761 days ago
That format is actually properly called JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), and the extension '.jpeg' is commonly used on *nix OSes. Using '.jpg' only became the standard on DOS/Windows in conformance with the old 8.3 filename constraint -- the same reason HTML files are often '.htm' rather than '.html' on Windows.