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I use  Abi Word 2.8  for all  word and text  DOC  work and it lets you save in all diferant formats.

Two formats I think are the same but I don't understand the diferance is

.txt   and   Encoded txt

When I save something in    .txt   it will open in NOTEPAD I get it it is a  text bass file.

But when I go to save the same file in    Encoded txt  it still opens in notepad and I get this.

What I don't get is when I save as  Encoded txt  like I say it brings up a window that asks me how I want to encode.
US  ASCii
Urapean  ASCii
Windows  txt

And a lot of others I never seen before.

A  text file has no  formating at all I get it.   So my gess is all this just is for how many Bits it will encode it as or something like this.

Can someone tell me what I am not getting? Quote from: nymph4 on January 04, 2011, 04:23:38 PM

A  text file has no  formating at all I get it.
of course it has a format. ASCII is a standardized format to represent SYMBOLS using bytes. It has several variations. Unicode is another format to represent symbols using bytes. A text file can be either.


Could you please start using the SPELL check. All your posts take me a while a decipher.
Not an answer, just some advice.Thanks but say I pick to save as   Encoded txt
then this is when I get a list of saving options like
US  ascii
Standard  ascii

and so on.

But if I just save as  txt   and not  Encoded  txt   I get no saving options.

Why this is what I ment?
Quote from: nymph4 on January 05, 2011, 09:47:24 AM
But if I just save as  txt   and not  Encoded  txt   I get no saving options.

I dont understand what you want to know?

If you save as .txt .......then it saves as .txt..............if you save as encoded txt.........then it gives you options to encode it.

Is that right?yes this is right.

So if I get what you are telling me then if I have a lot of Symboles and things like this in my text file. And I go to save it as just  txt  it will not save all the Symboles.

But if I save as  Encoed txt  it will  am I right?
Open notepad

Put some symbols in and save it.

Close the file

Open it again

Are the symbols there? Quote
What I don't get is when I save as  Encoded txt  like I say it brings up a window that asks me how I want to encode.
US  ASCii
Urapean  ASCii
Windows  txt

And a lot of others I never seen before.
Most likely, you really have no NEED to use any of those Encoded options.  I believe the formats most users would be using are .doc, .txt, and .rtf.  I presume your question is an academic one; in other words, you're just asking more out of curiosity than a real need to know the distinct characteristics of the Encoded options.  Am I right? I typed some symboles and saved it and opened it and they were still they. Quote from: nymph4 on January 05, 2011, 03:53:17 PM
I typed some symboles and saved it and opened it and they were still they.

Is that the answer your after?No

If I make two files with  Text and Markings and so on and save one as  .txt  and the other as  Encoded txt

They both open in Notepad  I get it they are both txt files.

But why would I say save something in  Encoded txt   and then  the   encodeing window  opens and I pick  US  ascii

What is all this doing that plane  txt   is not?http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html


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