> So at minimum, a text file should be tagged according to character set.
Whoa! Wait a minute. How do we get from here to there?
If it's tagged, it's not a *plain* text file, but something else.
The way ahead out of the character set identity morass for "text files"
is to use the Universal Character Set -- that way, once again, we
will know how to interpret plain text files.
The rest of this discussion is about something else other than what
the Unicode Standard means by "plain text", and has, as far as I can
tell, more to do with devising a kind of a lowest common denominator
document format standard for interoperability. While people on this list
may find that interesting to discuss, it is rather orthogonal to the
intended scope of the Unicode Standard.
--Ken Whistler
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