tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36547168.post4851166397785543828..comments2023-11-25T11:00:42.257+01:00Comments on Invisible to the eye: 10 things plain text excels inGiorgiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03558287012747987157noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36547168.post-65473278266079708912009-10-17T11:05:21.191+02:002009-10-17T11:05:21.191+02:00Peter,
the maximum length of an escaped sequence w...Peter,<br />the maximum length of an escaped sequence was originally 6 bytes, after RFC 3629 it was limited to 4. In fact Unicode characters do need only four-byte sequences. I've corrected the sentence in the post.<br />cakebaker,<br />I stored too my plain text files under Subversion, since it is capable of diffing this format.Giorgiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12689416577856305650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36547168.post-11940860091341919192009-10-17T09:07:27.675+02:002009-10-17T09:07:27.675+02:00Thanks for this article.
For me the biggest advan...Thanks for this article.<br /><br />For me the biggest advantage of plain text files is that I can store them easily in a source control system like git. <br /><br />Btw: for writing a book in plain text have a look at <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/" rel="nofollow">LaTex</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36547168.post-1042087333324618072009-10-17T05:35:08.568+02:002009-10-17T05:35:08.568+02:00Thanks for the good examples.
There are several l...Thanks for the good examples.<br /><br />There are several lightweight wiki-like text formats that can be converted to HTML/PDF/RTF easily. The most popular and useful is <a href="http://www.maplefish.com/todd/aft.html" rel="nofollow">Almost Free Text</a>, others are listed in <a href="http://bluebones.net/2005/02/humane-text-formats/" rel="nofollow">this article</a>.<br /><br />Nitpicking: the maximum length of UTF-8 character is 4 bytes, not 6 (characters up to U+10FFFF are allowed).Peterhttp://www.strchr.comnoreply@blogger.com