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Bestandsformaat

Over TXT-bestanden

TXT (Plain Text · Documentformaat)

Uitgebracht 1963 Door ASCII committee (ANSI X3.4)

Plain Text (.txt) is een standaard bestandsformaat dat door KaijuConverter wordt ondersteund voor gegevensuitwisseling, archivering en platformonafhankelijke conversie.

Categorie

Documents & Text

Extensie

.txt

MIME-type

text/plain

Bruikbaar als

Invoer Uitvoer
Het verhaal

HOE TXT
IS ONTSTAAN.

1963
1967

The plain text file predates almost every other format on this page. When ASCII was standardized in 1963 (with a 1967 revision) it defined the 128 characters that every computer of the era would agree on. A file that contained nothing but those characters, separated by newlines, was the simplest possible document — and it became the universal interchange format for source code, configuration files, logs, and correspondence.

The arrival of Unicode in the 1990s — and UTF-8 in particular — extended the plain text file to cover every writing system on Earth without changing its core premise: just characters, no styling. Fifty years on, .txt is still the most portable format in existence.

WEETJES &
TRIVIA.

01

Every operating system disagrees about what a "line ending" is: CRLF on Windows, LF on Unix, CR on classic Mac.

02

UTF-8 was designed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike on a placemat at a New Jersey diner in 1992.

03

The largest text file ever published is the English Wikipedia XML dump — over 100 GB uncompressed.

04

A .txt file can theoretically hold any content; only by convention does it mean "plain text".

05

The Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the start of some UTF files is a zero-width, invisible character that trips up countless parsers.

STERKE PUNTEN &
BEPERKINGEN.

Sterke punten

  • Universally readable — every operating system, every editor, every programming language.
  • Zero metadata overhead: the file size equals the character count (for ASCII).
  • Safe to diff, grep, version-control, and pipe through command-line tools.
  • Immune to format obsolescence: a text file from 1970 still opens today.
  • Tiny footprint for structured data like logs or configuration.

Beperkingen

  • No styling, images, or embedded structure — just characters.
  • Character encoding ambiguity (ISO-8859-1 vs UTF-8 vs Windows-1252) causes "mojibake".
  • Line-ending differences between OSes still cause subtle bugs today.
  • No way to carry hyperlinks, tables, or formatting without a convention on top (like Markdown).

Typische bestandsgroottes

Short note

< 1 KB

README file

2–20 KB

Full novel (~90,000 words)

500 KB – 1 MB

Server log file (daily)

10 MB – 1 GB

Technische specificaties

MIME type
text/plain
Common encodings
UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252
Line endings
LF (Unix), CRLF (Windows), CR (classic Mac)
Max file size
Limited only by filesystem (no format-level limit)
Structure
None — flat sequence of characters
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Notes, logs, configuration files, data exchange, READMEs.

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