Am 1999-06-30 um 14:17 h PDT hat Markus Kuhn geschrieben:
> The only thing that is clear about "plain text" is that it is not well
> defined at all.
Am 1999-06-30 um 15:32 h PDT hat Frank da Cruz geschrieben:
> Actually, it tends to be well-defined for each platform.
In MS-DOS (or PC-DOS and other DOS variants) on the PC, it is not
well defined, at all:
- '0D0A'x (CR+LF) means either line-break or pararaph separator,
- '09'x (HT) means either a tabulator (and nobody knows where the
tab positions are supposed to be) or a line-break,
- '1A'x (SUB, aka Ctrl-Z) either means end of text, or a
right-pointing arrow; when it is used as an end-of-text marker,
the remainder of the storage block may contain arbitrary characters
with some programs and must contain '00'x with other programs (nice
feature when one of the former writes a file one of the latter is
supposed to read).
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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