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Unicode was designed to provide code-point-by-code-point round-trip format conversion to and from any preexisting character encodings, so that text files in older character sets can be converted to Unicode and then back and get back the same file, without employing context-dependent interpretation.
Document file format, Generic container format. A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists stored as data within a computer file system. In operating systems such as CP/M and DOS, where the operating ...
UTF-8. UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. [1] UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 [a] valid Unicode code points using one to four one- byte (8-bit) code units.
PK4 – PK4 Doom³ archive (opens similarly to a zip archive.) PNJ – a sub-format of the MNG file format, used for encapsulating JPEG files [3] PXZ – a compressed layered image file used for the image editing website, pixlr.com. PY, PYW – Python code file. PMP – PenguinMod Project. PMS – PenguinMod Sprite.
For processing, a format should be easy to search, truncate, and generally process safely. All normal Unicode encodings use some form of fixed size code unit. Depending on the format and the code point to be encoded, one or more of these code units will represent a Unicode code point. To allow easy searching and truncation, a sequence must not ...
Conversely, a plain text file may be non-ASCII (in an encoding such as Unicode UTF-8). [further explanation needed] Text-only formatted text is achieved by markup which too is textual, while some editors of formatted text like Microsoft Word save in a binary format. Beginnings of formatted text
Byte order mark. The byte-order mark ( BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number at the start of a text stream can signal several things to a program reading the text: [1] which Unicode character encoding is used. BOM use is optional.
1 Control-C has typically been used as a "break" or "interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use.