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What's your definition of "text"?

(I define it as "written words in a human-readable language". You must have something else in mind, because neither ASCII art nor control codes fit my definition.)

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A linear stream of non-null characters, the majority of content being printable glyphs.

What is a null character? That’s like saying “non-zero chance”.

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