Why I use plain text files. micro.duncanhart.com
@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.
@JohnPhilpin now I'm lost. The Unicode standard says: "Plain text is public, standardized, and universally readable"... but universally readable by whom???
@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.