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There's no such thing as plain text
- mikewarot 5y agoThis was submitted before, but I think it really deserves some attention. Dylan gives a boatload of context to how and why UTF-8 came along, and how/why he learned about it. Watch this, and you'll understand so much more about text encodings.
- eimrine 5y agoThere were thousands years of plain text. And then computers have appeared.
- coldtea 5y agoIf you over-analyze things, there's no such thing as "a table", also (it's all molecules in a quantum fog pattern"). But there absolutely is something that can be called plain text for all intents and purposes.