Re: Request for obscure text formats

Hi David,

are you interested in issues with text encoding (especially accented
characters) or only in data localisation? Is it only "text" or binary
data as well (one of the instruments I use generates binary files
with no appropriate tool that would be adapted to contemporaneous
usage and I had to reverse-engineer the format myself)? 

Yours
Olivier.

On Sat, 26 Jun 2021
08:31:59 -0400 David Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scientists,
> 
> I am looking for examples of obscure text file formats. These files
> are often generated by scientific instruments to be read by their
> proprietary software. Or they might come from a program not intended
> to be machine readable. These examples are for some motivation slides
> for my SciPy conference talk [1] on Parsita.
> 
> If you have an example, please send it my way. If you don't want to
> send a whole file, enough text to fill a slide is sufficient.
> 
> Thanks so much!
> 
> David Hagen
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.scipy2021.scipy.org/schedule
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  /Maître de Conférences/
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    UMR6310 CNRS / Université de Nantes


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