Tangential to the actual point of the post, but the talk "Plain text? Really?" by Dylan Beattie[1] is one of my favorite talks. It does a great job capturing the problems with something that "seems" so simple. I think the author of the blog is well aware of these, though :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI

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s1mon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Many things I knew, and a bunch I didn't. Thanks for that.

I wish he'd spent a little more time on the fundamental issue of CR vs CR/LF vs LF. That's been a "plain" text nightmare since before Unicode and many of the other complexities existed.

	▲	radiator an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I notice that you have answered in considerably less time than the duration of the video.