What is/are plain text format/s?
A plain text file is one which has no invisible control characters or formatting commands, but only printable text characters such as letters, numbers or symbols. Plain text files can be created using a plain text editor such as Microsoft Notepad. Plain text is portable (it can be transferred from one computing environment to another) because it can be read by almost any software application. However, when imported into an application such as a word processor it normally appears unformatted. The text characters in a plain text file are often taken from the ASCII character set. ASCII is an acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which was developed by the American National Standards Institute. It represents each character as a binary number (a string of seven digits, each of which is either a 0 or a 1). For example, the ASCII code for the percent symbol (%) is 0100101. ASCII defines 128 characters in this way. Because the ASCII character set has been widely u
