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Title: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Thorin on September 08, 2023, 12:44:13 PM
"Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022"
https://youtu.be/gd5uJ7Nlvvo?si=Os-SQFmIB5XinSb8

It's an hour-long video, I watched it at 1.5x speed.  This guy goes into a _huge_ amount of detail about why "plain text" isn't "plain text".  I really enjoyed learning all of the history that led up to the point where we are today.
Title: Re: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Mr. Analog on September 08, 2023, 04:42:03 PM
I'm gonna have to give this a watch
Title: Re: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Melbosa on September 11, 2023, 04:45:57 PM
More time than I have lol
Title: Re: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Lazybones on September 11, 2023, 04:48:23 PM
My fav related item is zero length unprintable characters showing up in code or in XML / JSON integration files blowing up parsing.
Title: Re: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Mr. Analog on September 11, 2023, 05:38:17 PM
But where else should I store my vertical tab characters?? lol
Title: Re: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Darren Dirt on September 12, 2023, 07:50:35 PM
Quote from: Thorin on September 08, 2023, 12:44:13 PM"Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022"
https://youtu.be/gd5uJ7Nlvvo?si=Os-SQFmIB5XinSb8

It's an hour-long video, I watched it at 1.5x speed.  This guy goes into a _huge_ amount of detail about why "plain text" isn't "plain text".  I really enjoyed learning all of the history that led up to the point where we are today.

Found the ner🤓!

;-) Disclaimer: I actually like these kind of tech under-the-hood distraction thingies. More than I probably should.

Haven't watched yet, but my guess it goes from 127 byte ASCII through to current 4 byte Unicode of today. 😎
Title: Re: is that plain text, or plain text?
Post by: Thorin on September 13, 2023, 10:53:01 AM
Yeah, it also goes back into the 1800s to talk about type-setting.

In the entire talk, he skipped over the "Turkish i" problem, though.