Elements of File Formats

File Format
Name	Elements of File Formats
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Elements of File Formats

This section is for

• Common formats that make up only a small part of a file
• Ancillary knowledge that may be needed to help decode file formats

Integers

• Binary-coded decimal
• Ones' complement
• Two's complement
• Variable-length quantity

See also Category:Integer data types.

Floating point numbers

• Bfloat16 (BF16) [1]
• DEC64
• IEEE floating point
• Posit
• Unum

See also Category:Floating point data types.

Time formats

Refer to Date and time formats.

Identifiers

• CLSID
• Domain name
  • Top-level domain
• Filename
  • Filename extension
• FourCC
• GUID
• IANA character set name
• IETF language tag
• ISO 3166-1 country code
• Macintosh type/creator code
• Magic
• RISC OS filetype
• ULID
• UUID
• Windows Language Code Identifier

Graphics

• Palettes

Other

• ANSI escape code
• Base2
• Bit
• Bit order
• Byte
• Emacs file variable
• Endianness (little-endian, big-endian)
• File
• Shebang

See also

• Character encoding
• Compression
• Data type
• Date and time formats
• Digital Rights Management
• Encryption
• Error codes and messages
• Error detection and correction
• Naming and numbering systems
• Text-based data