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Plain text file is my favorite file format... because in the end, portability is what matters the most.

By plain text, do you have in mind CRLF or LF, and for structured data, do you have in mind YAML, JSON or one of the umpty others?

ASCII? UTF-8? UTF-16? ... ...

Anyone using the words "plain text" for a file had better mean either ASCII or UTF-8.

And for almost all purposes these days it should be the latter.

Shift-JIS? GB18030? KOI8-R?

"Plain text" does not really exist.

lol... yes. UTF-512 should be enough for everybody!

UTF-640K?

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