I feel like a lot of use plain text proponents forget that outside of ASCII and now UTF-8, lots of alleged plain text documents with diacritics or non-latin characters are at least slightly difficult to open because of their somewhat esoteric encodings. Plain text isn't as universal as it is often claimed, although it is immensely simpler than some other formats.
But maybe we should all use monochrome bitmap files for everything? That would be very simple.
But maybe we should all use monochrome bitmap files for everything? That would be very simple.