The Advantages of Text Files for Universal Knowledge Sharing and Documentation
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Summary
The article advocates for the use of text files as a universal, durable format for sharing knowledge and documentation. It explains that text files contain human-readable ASCII characters (with Unicode emerging as a replacement) and discusses their technical characteristics including character ranges, common fonts, and their advantages for long-term preservation and accessibility across different systems and generations.
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Textfiles are files that contain human readable characters in the ASCII encoding (Unicode is rising and replacing this).
The ASCII characters are characters 32 to 126 (decimal).
The font of textfiles is usually Courier New, Lucida Console, Terminal, or System fonts; these fonts are chosen...
Article URL: http://textfiles.com/uploads/textfiles.txt
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459425
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