"plain text"

Masataka Ohta <mohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)cc(_dot_)titech(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp> 
writes:
> What's your "plain text"?
My definition of "plain text" in the Internet domain (which I think
should be included in the definition of the "text" top-level MIME
type) is:

     Line-oriented data, with lines separated by the octet
     sequence 0D 0A.

Thus, data encoded in EBCDIC or UNICODE-1-1 should not qualify.

Without a definition as strict as above, the term "text" becomes
effectively meaningless.  One could legitimately register "GIF" as a
MIME character set.

I could see the potential need for a new top-level type for textual,
line oriented data separated by the 16-bit-quantity sequence 000D 000A.

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