Walter wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:03 pm
- Is there any "officially acknowledged" text file format for programs?
When Free42 prints to a text file, it encodes the text as UTF-8 with Byte Order Mark (BOM -- only written at the start of new files) and CR/LF line separators. So, any tool that processes programs as text should support at least that.
If I ever get around to implementing text import and export, export will use that same format, but import will be more lenient, accepting CR/LF, LF, and CR line separators, UTF-8 and UTF-16, with or without BOM, and maybe also ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, and Mac Roman.