text file

See also: textfile

English

Alternative forms

• textfile
• .txt file

Noun

text file (plural text files)

1. (computing) A data file containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting
2. (computing) A data file in a character encoding that allows it to be read in non-specialised text editor.

Hypernyms

• file

Translations

plain, human-readable file containing only text

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文本文件 (wénběn wénjiàn)

• Danish: tekstfil c
• Finnish: tekstitiedosto
• French: fichier texte m
• German: Textdatei (de) f
• Japanese: テキストファイル (ja) (tekisuto fairu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tekstfil m or f

  Nynorsk: tekstfil f

• Russian: те́кстовый файл m (tékstovyj fajl)
• Swedish: textfil (sv) c
• Tagalog: talaksang-akda
• Turkish: metin dosyası

See also

• text file on Wikipedia.Wikipedia