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0 pointsalanbernstein4y ago0 comments

As the pro-plain-text post said: HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text.

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It depends. XML is generally not human-readable, it's got way too much programming code in relation to the amount of human content. But a simple subset of HTML is definitely human-readable.

mro_name4y ago

No, not when it comes to what reading person they target.

Here text/plain is the only that works for e.g. my mother.

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0 pointsalanbernstein4y ago0 comments

As the pro-plain-text post said: HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text.

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ciphol4y ago

It depends. XML is generally not human-readable, it's got way too much programming code in relation to the amount of human content. But a simple subset of HTML is definitely human-readable.

mro_name4y ago

No, not when it comes to what reading person they target.

Here text/plain is the only that works for e.g. my mother.

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