However their file-names are often marked with .txt at the end by Windows users and other operating systems often assume unidentifiable files to be text. However there is the MIME type "text/plain" that is used for transfer over the internet or between software components.

Plain text and rich text

According to The Unicode Standard:
* "Plain text is a pure sequence of character codes; plain Un-encoded text is therefore a sequence of Unicode character

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