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Macosx Classic Mac Os Resource Fork: Apple Macintosh Text Files

Prior to Mac OS X, classic Mac OS systems identified text files based on their resource fork type being labeled as "TEXT". Lines in Macintosh text files were terminated with carriage return characters. As a certified Unix system, macOS now uses the POSIX format for text files. macOS assigns various Uniform Type Identifiers to text files to indicate encoding, such as "public.plain-text" for generic text files and "public.utf8-plain-text" for UTF-8 encoded text files.

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Macosx Classic Mac Os Resource Fork: Apple Macintosh Text Files

Prior to Mac OS X, classic Mac OS systems identified text files based on their resource fork type being labeled as "TEXT". Lines in Macintosh text files were terminated with carriage return characters. As a certified Unix system, macOS now uses the POSIX format for text files. macOS assigns various Uniform Type Identifiers to text files to indicate encoding, such as "public.plain-text" for generic text files and "public.utf8-plain-text" for UTF-8 encoded text files.

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Apple Macintosh text files

Prior to the advent of Mac OS X (now called macOS), the classic Mac OS system regarded the
content of a file (the data fork) to be a text file when its resource fork indicated that the type of
the file was "TEXT".[7] Lines of Macintosh text files are terminated with CR characters.[8]
Being certified Unix, macOS uses POSIX format for text files.[8] Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
used for text files in macOS is "public.plain-text"; additional, more specific UTIs are:
"public.utf8-plain-text" for utf-8-encoded text, "public.utf16-external-plain-text" and
"public.utf16-plain-text" for utf-16-encoded text and "com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text" for
classic Mac OS text files.[7]

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