plain text
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
- (file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.
- (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".
形容词 Adjective
- (cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext.