roarApr 20, 2017

This is an example of a revolutionary new document
format called "Plain Text". Some of the features of this format are:

* supported by every editor!
* requires no internet connection!
* editable on any device, from your phone to your TV!
* simple to backup and restore!
* compare documents with "diff"!
* search documents with "grep"!
* can be modified programaticaly using "sed" and "awk"!
* Plain-text supports every version control system out there!

Try plain-text today!

Show threadSylvainApr 21, 2017
@roar this format seems awesome, but *what if you're one of the billions of people that use an alphabet with letters not in the lower 127 ASCII* <blank stare>
Show threadroar
@Sylva1n use a text editor that supports unicode?
Apr 21, 2017 at 5:16pmWeb
Show threadSylvainApr 21, 2017

@roar and a grep/diff/sed/awk that also support Unicode. And then not *every* system or editor supports it.

I get your point. Let's just not pretend that plain ASCII is an awesome versatile format, unless you imply that only English-speaking computer-literate people matter.

<<speaking as an English-speaking computer-literate person that can't use French accents in plain text C code comments, because somewhere, somehow, it borks some tools>>