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Re:Plain Text Accounting by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:52AM (#25746845)
Oh really? In which encoding? ASCII? EBCDIC? UTF1/6/8/16/32, TRON, and gazillionz of other historical artifacts?
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Re:Plain Text Accounting by zaltekk on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:10AM (#25747085)
Because a proprietary or binary format would be easier to recover over time?

It’s usually pretty easy to figure out the right encoding for text files, especially when you know their origin (which I expect you would for accounting documents).

Additionally, UTF-8 is quite universally accepted these days.

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Re:Plain Text Accounting by EuAndreh on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:56AM (#25746900)
UTF-8
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Re:Plain Text Accounting by comeonseriously on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:13AM (#25747126)
Why the aggression?
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Re:Plain Text Accounting by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:41AM (#25747474)
Because dogmatic regression.
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Re:Plain Text Accounting by kawsper on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:55AM (#25746884)
Yes.
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