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Escape Characters: Rendering

When a text file is opened by a text editor, the content is presented to the user as plain text. Control codes in the file may be rendered literally or as visible escape characters that can be edited. While text files contain plain text, control characters with formatting instructions are also included but rendered differently depending on the application.

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Escape Characters: Rendering

When a text file is opened by a text editor, the content is presented to the user as plain text. Control codes in the file may be rendered literally or as visible escape characters that can be edited. While text files contain plain text, control characters with formatting instructions are also included but rendered differently depending on the application.

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Rendering

When opened by a text editor, human-readable content is presented to the user. This often
consists of the file's plain text visible to the user. Depending on the application, control codes
may be rendered either as literal instructions acted upon by the editor, or as visible escape
characters that can be edited as plain text. Though there may be plain text in a text file, control
characters wit
Notes and references
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Freytag, Asmus (2015-12-18). "FAQ UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM". The
Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2016-05-30. Yes, UTF-8 can contain a BOM.
However, it makes no difference as to the endianness of the byte stream. UTF-8
always has the same byte order. An initial BOM is only used as a signature an
indication that an otherwise unmarked text file is in UTF-8. Note that some
recipients of UTF-8 encoded data do not expect a BOM. Where UTF-8 is used
transparently in 8-bit environments, the use of a BOM will interfere with any
protocol or file format that expects specific ASCII characters at the beginning, such
as the use of "#!" of at the beginning of Unix shell scripts.
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Retrieved 2015-12-15.
"3.206 Line". IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition. IEEE Computer Society.
Retrieved 2015-12-15.
"3.284 Printable File". IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition. IEEE Computer Society.
Retrieved 2015-12-15.
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Inc. 2009-11-17. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
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