duncanhart
duncanhart
Why I use plain text files. micro.duncanhart.com
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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@duncanhart is markdown allowed?

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writingslowly
writingslowly

@JohnPhilpin is anything (human-readable) that goes in a plain text file part of a plain text file? “If it says .txt on the tin, it’s .txt in the tin”. Maybe. What are the exceptions? But then, “if it says .md on the tin, it’s .txt in the tin.” perhaps I’m confusing the container and the content.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@writingslowly it’s the human readable part … which humans?

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writingslowly
writingslowly

@JohnPhilpin now I'm lost. The Unicode standard says: "Plain text is public, standardized, and universally readable"... but universally readable by whom???

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@writingslowly exactly

A good software engineer can read html .. code and all

Markdown even easier to parse

And .. I recognize my shortcomings, but I am not alone .. fill a .txt file with Portuguese and I will be listening.

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