@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>1/</p><p>For a long time, the de facto ‘text’ data format included the Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences.</p><p>In practice, SGR control sequences were as much ‘text’ as the carriage-return, form-feed, horizontal-tab, line-feed, vertical-tab control codes are ‘text’.</p><p>SGR control sequences gave us things such as — bold, color, italics, overlining, underlining, etc.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerTerminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerTerminal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelectGraphicRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelectGraphicRendition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SGR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SGR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Text</span></a></p>