📝Text has become much more complicated with Unicode

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Text has become a popular format because it’s simple, human-readable and human-writable

Text has became popular when it was primarily ASCII. However, text encodings have evolved significantly. There are multiple text encodings in use (although UTF-8 has kinda won).

Unicode formats has became quite complicated with wide character set, variable-length encoding, graphemes, grapheme clusters, etc. There are now security attacks on text (e.g., making text look like other text).