[Developers] what's the difference between a short text input and a machine readable string?

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Raymond Yee<raymond.yee at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the difference between a "short text input" (/type/text) vs a
> "machine readable string"  (/type/rawstring)?

Text has a human language associated with it (English, French, etc),
while a machine readable string is language independent (but still a
string as opposed to raw uninterpreted octets).  Examples of machine
readable strings include things like ISBNs, SSNs, etc.

Tom