.txt Text encodings
How to open a .txt file
Text with Legacy or Unknown Encoding
Text files from DOS (CP437/850), classic Mac (Mac Roman), Windows (CP1252), or mainframes (EBCDIC) that show garbled characters today.
- Full name
- Text with Legacy or Unknown Encoding
- Made by
- Various
- Era
- 1963-present
- Family
- Text encodings
- Also seen as
- .asc, .ans, .nfo, .diz, .me, .1st
- Converts to
- txt
- Detection
- Recognised from the file's bytes, even if renamed
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Other ways to open .txt files
- Any text editor once converted