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Introduction
1.5 Terms
Text file
The term "Text file" is used to describe a file which does not contain any formatting (font
type, font size, underscore, bold, italics etc.) or embedded objects (pictures, tables, graphics,
footnotes etc.).
This means that, apart from the text characters, the file will only contain ASCII control
characters like Tab, CR and LF (tab indent, carriage return and line feed).
The text characters are taken from a particular code page.
Occasionally, text files are also incorrectly referred to as ASCII files. This is only correct if a
text file only contains ASCII characters (codes 0 to 127) and is therefore code page
invariant.
Unicode
A 16-bit character set for which code pages are no longer required. All character codes are
unique, without needing to specify the code page. Unicode programs like Word 2003 do not
offer code page-dependent interpreting of characters and thus also cannot display
characters differently by assigning a font or language property.
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Generating target language texts (TX2)
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