
Standards are good. It’s what makes electricity move, it makes the internet work, and makes text so you can read it. Mostly.
The problem with text is that there are many standards, text gets messy looking when moved from here to there, from document to document. How do you clean the mess?
Amazingly, documents that get moved around and saved in different applications, forwarded again and again, eventually pick up all kinds of ugly invisible characters which destroy the original formatting. Hard returns, unnecessary.... (excerpted).
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