[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: xml-dev Digest 16 Jun 2015 13:16:23 -0000 Issue 3115
On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 13:16:23 xml-dev-digest-help@lists.xml.org wrote: > Text is data encoded based on some human writing system. (Contrast with > binary, which is not a human writing system; or with hex which is binary > written with codes developed for a human writing system. ) > > In markup, "Text" often is used in signify that the data does not > necessarily conform to third-normal-formish rules like atomicity. Binary and text are not on the same plane. Text is something a human can read. Binary is something a computer can read. For computers, text needs to be encoded as binary. Is Unicode binary or text? I think both. Even the distinction between text and images is very blurry. What is a glyph, a smiley, an emoji, an illuminated letter: text or image? I think those have features of both. I can apply a textual algorithm to a PDF or SVG file that may contains both characters and outlines. [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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