fileformats/documentation/README.md

FileFormats

Documentation and Rust Implementation to learn how most famous file formats store data.

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Concepts

2 kinds of computer files: text files and binary files.

• Text files
  • Encoding (charset: ASCII, UTF-8, etc.)
  • End Of Line (EOL): \n, \r\n, \r, and End Of File (EOF)
  • Type (common mimetypes: text/plain, text/html, text/markdown, etc.)
  • Indentation: Spaces vs Tabs
• Binary files: Endianness, Type
  • Images
    • PPM (Portable PixMap)
    • PNG
    • JPG, JPEG
    • GIF
    • WebP
    • BMP
    • SVG
    • HEIC
  • Videos
    • MP4
    • AVI
  • Audio
    • MP3
    • WAV
  • Documents
    • PDF
    • DOCX
    • XLSX
    • PPTX