From: matthewmpower@gmail.com   
      
   Could anyone help me understand a text file? Like the most basic that works on   
   every system since the 1960s? I realize that might not be possible and that's   
   why ASCII was invented. I've read about UTF-8 and there are certainly more   
   since then. I honestly    
   don't even know what encoding is used to make this message on an Apple IIgs   
   readable on Usenet. Is ASCII the most platform-independent? On modern systems   
   I use VSCode, but I find even that program adds characters that show up as ?   
   marks if I send the    
   file to a IIgs for example.   
      
   Thank you for reading.   
      
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