What's the difference between Text, Text - MS-DOS Format, and Unicode Text?

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by davux • 14 years ago

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bediger• 14 years ago

Very informative, in that it answers the question very precisely. It's like the old joke about a helicopter pilot lost in pea soup fog over Seattle, somewhere. A building abruptly looms out of the fog, and the pilot holds up a sign saying "WHERE AM I?" The person at the window scribbles on a piece of paper: "YOU'RE IN SEATTLE". The pilot whips the helicopter around, flies straight to a helipad and lands with 30 seconds of fuel left. The passengers want to know how he did that. "Well, the answer was perfectly correct, but absolutely useless. So, I knew that the building was in Redmond on the Microsoft campus."

Although I liked seeing and knowing what Wordpad means, this is the worst kind of apologetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics). It's great that Wordpad allows this sort of control. But what the heck? Why does "text" mean three different things? Why does "text" differ from "binary"? That's just confusing.

What's the difference between Text, Text - MS-DOS Format, and Unicode Text?

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