Category:File formats with extension .txt - Revision history

Dan Tobias at 17:45, 17 November 2012

2012-11-17T17:45:38Z

Dan Tobias: Will move to TXT article...

2012-11-15T16:44:53Z

Will move to TXT article...

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2012-11-15T16:42:12Z

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'''.txt''' files are usually plain text (occasionally the longer [[:Category:File formats with extension .text|.text]] extension appears, but this is rare) but may be in any of a variety of [[Character Encoding]]s, and may also vary in line and paragraph breaking conventions.

Depending on what system the file was created on or intended to be viewed on, line breaks may be done as Carriage Return ([[ASCII]] 0D hex) and Linefeed (ASCII 0A hex) together (usually in that order, though in rare cases in the opposite order), or just one of those characters alone. Some text viewing or editing programs that are not cross-platform-friendly will really mess up badly in attempting to view/edit files using a different line break convention than the program expects, so you might see lines overwriting one another instead of going to the next line, or peculiar control characters show up within the file, or other strangeness.

Files may also use hard line breaks at a fixed number of columns (usually 80, but other values such as 40 or 65 are used sometimes), or just have line breaks at the end of paragraphs and expect systems to word-wrap long lines; encountering files of a different convention than you expect may result in lines running way off to the right of the screen and requiring horizontal scrolling, or else short, choppy lines. Many text editors have a "paragraph reformat" command to bring paragraphs into compliance with your desired conventions.

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	'''.txt''' files are usually plain text (occasionally the longer [[:Category:File formats with extension .text\|.text]] extension appears, but this is rare) but may be in any of a variety of [[Character Encoding]]s, and may also vary in line and paragraph breaking conventions.		'''.txt''' files are usually plain text (occasionally the longer [[:Category:File formats with extension .text\|.text]] extension appears, but this is rare) but may be in any of a variety of [[Character Encoding]]s, and may also vary in line and paragraph breaking conventions.
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−	Depending on what system the file was created on or intended to be viewed on, line breaks may be done as Carriage Return ([[ASCII]] 0D hex) and Linefeed (ASCII 0A hex) together (usually in that order, though in rare cases in the opposite order), or just one of those characters alone. Some text viewing or editing programs that are not cross-platform-friendly will really mess up badly in attempting to view/edit files using a different line break convention than the program expects, so you might see lines overwriting one another instead of going to the next line, or peculiar control characters show up within the file, or other strangeness.
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−	Files may also use hard line breaks at a fixed number of columns (usually 80, but other values such as 40 or 65 are used sometimes), or just have line breaks at the end of paragraphs and expect systems to word-wrap long lines; encountering files of a different convention than you expect may result in lines running way off to the right of the screen and requiring horizontal scrolling, or else short, choppy lines. Many text editors have a "paragraph reformat" command to bring paragraphs into compliance with your desired conventions.