For Web formats (HTML, etc.), the answer is "no".
The obvious follow-up to the list: It'd be interesting to know where the answer is "yes".

People will occasionally mention ISO/IEC 2022, which can be thought of as a meta-encoding or encoding template or encoding constructor, but in the normal case a sensible position is that a document making use of multiple encodings is no longer plaintext ("single text document" in this thread's subject line). And – yes – "plaintext" is a fuzzy notion around the edges, as others have successfully argued in the past.

Stephan


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