is that plain text, or plain text?

[Thorin]

"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.

[Mr. Analog]

I'm gonna have to give this a watch

[Melbosa]

More time than I have lol

[Lazybones]

My fav related item is zero length unprintable characters showing up in code or in XML / JSON integration files blowing up parsing.

[Mr. Analog]

But where else should I store my vertical tab characters?? lol

[Darren Dirt]

"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. 😎

[Thorin]

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.