For non-English text an encoding supporting a broader character repertoire is needed, often UTF-8 nowadays. Traditionally, ASCII was used much of the time for maximum interoperability, though many platform-specific character sets were also in use. Some data formats (usually those intended to be human-readable) are based on plain text see Text-based data for some structured formats that are stored in plain text (and hence can be opened in a plain text editor if no more specific program is available). Plain text files contain no formatting information other than white space characters. Plain text files (also known by the extension TXT) consist of characters encoded sequentially in some particular character encoding.
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