Plain text is forever (Was: Have Characters that Depict Electronic Components been Discussed?
Stephane Bortzmeyer via Unicode <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:54:45PM +0300, Martin Vahi via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote a message of 139 lines which said: > my reluctance to using those higher-level protocols is > that from software developer's perspective I just want to WRITE ONCE > WITHOUT NEEDING TO REWRITE OLD SOFTWARE Indeed, who remembers "Adobe Flash or Java Applets or Microsoft Silverlight or VRML"? "Plain text is great for long-term archiving and what it means for Unicode" could be a good talk at the WAC (Web Archiving Conference). The call for proposals is open until 11 september, do not hesitate to suggest a talk along what you wrote in your message. https://netpreserve.org/ga2025/ https://netpreserve.org/ga2025/cfp/