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You are misunderstanding: 1. ASCII simply defines a byte encoding to represent characters. E.g. UTF-8 is another character encoding. HTML files are often writt
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
You are misunderstanding:
1. ASCII simply defines a byte encoding to represent characters. E.g. UTF-8 is another character encoding. HTML files are often written in ASCII.
2. Markdown is a very common standard for representing minimal formatting in a plain text file: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agoThanks, I understand now. For personal documentation, I prefer files of MIME type "text/plain" rather than "text/html". For text encoding, I prefer 7-bit ASCII. I do most reading in textmode. I generally dislike use of UTF-8. I dislike use of ANSI escape sequences to enhance text. These are my preferences, not necessarily anyone else's. Markdown has extra garbage in the file. No different than tags in HTML. RFC 7763 describes markdown as "lightweight markup". In the comment I am describing keeping extra garbage in a separate file. Although I have thought about storing the contents of the less history file at the top of the document, sort of like a table of contents, then extract it to a less history file when I want to read the document with less.