Importance of Plain Text

All here is related with Reis2003, page 41.

The Community for some Free Software project uses Internet as a toolbox. So, it uses electronic mail, web pages, mail discussion list and other tools, like a revision control system and an issue tracker.

Reis2003 has not said, but Wiki is used for a lot of projects, maintaining a documentation center; and blogs are used in some cases.

In mailing lists, for example, the message format is always plain text, never HTML.

"Normally, content transmitted trough these ways is simple text, written generally in English. The Free Software Community tends not to use HTML email, for example. Many people have advanced formatting techniques, using resources like inheritance, lists and diagrams, all with text symbols." (free translation)

Because it really happens, I intend to make AWA to use only ASCII as language for all needs.