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=Introduction=
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==Introduction==
 
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This section is for any text-based data formats that didn't fit into some other category.
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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!)]
  
=Text formats and resources=
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==Text formats and resources==
 
* [[AsciiDoc]]
 
* [[AsciiDoc]]
 
* [[Attribute-Relation File Format]]
 
* [[Attribute-Relation File Format]]
 
* [[Column Delimited]]
 
* [[Column Delimited]]
 
* [[CSV]] (Comma Separated Values; comma-delimited)
 
* [[CSV]] (Comma Separated Values; comma-delimited)
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** [[CSV Dialect Description Format]]
 
** [[CSV Schema]]
 
** [[CSV Schema]]
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** [[JSON Table Schema]]
 
* [[Microsoft Office File List]] (filelist.xml)
 
* [[Microsoft Office File List]] (filelist.xml)
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* [[NestedText]] [https://nestedtext.org/en/stable/]
 
* [[Org-mode]]
 
* [[Org-mode]]
 
* [[Softdisk Publishing UDF files]]
 
* [[Softdisk Publishing UDF files]]
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== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==
* [[TXT]]
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* [[Plain text]]
 
* Some text-based formats are listed in [[Document]], [[Markup]], [[Metaformats]], or [[Serialization]]
 
* Some text-based formats are listed in [[Document]], [[Markup]], [[Metaformats]], or [[Serialization]]
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== Links ==
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* [http://hellodot.net/lute/lotcl-03 Information wants to be plain text.]

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Text formats and resources

[edit] See Also

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