Text-based data
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Text based data, AKA plain text. has proven to be very hard to understand. This has not only to do with the infinite ways text based data might be structured, but mainly because you need to know the [[Character Encoding|encoding]] (eg. [[UTF-8]]) before you can start interpreting it. | Text based data, AKA plain text. has proven to be very hard to understand. This has not only to do with the infinite ways text based data might be structured, but mainly because you need to know the [[Character Encoding|encoding]] (eg. [[UTF-8]]) before you can start interpreting it. | ||
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* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)] | * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)] | ||
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Introduction
Text based data, AKA plain text. has proven to be very hard to understand. This has not only to do with the infinite ways text based data might be structured, but mainly because you need to know the encoding (eg. UTF-8) before you can start interpreting it.
Text formats and resources
- AsciiDoc
- Attribute-Relation File Format
- Column Delimited
- CSV (Comma Separated Values; comma-delimited)
- Microsoft Office File List (filelist.xml)
- Org-mode
- Softdisk Publishing UDF files
- Strings File (OS X, iOS) (.strings)
- Tab delimited
- Text Encoding Initiative
- Textile
See Also
- Plain text
- Some text-based formats are listed in Document, Markup, Metaformats, or Serialization
