# The 'text' language identifer appears as applescript rather than text

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [25.Март.2014 02:30:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-text-language-identifer-appears-as-applescript-rather-than-text/14076 "2014-03-25T02:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [25.Март.2014 18:28:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-text-language-identifer-appears-as-applescript-rather-than-text/14076/4 "2014-03-25T18:28:52Z")

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Why don’t you just indent by 4 spaces?

The strong assumption of fences is that **THEY ARE FOR SOURCE CODE**. (That said, if you explicitly say “none” I agree that should work, but I question why one would bother putting not-source-code in a source code block?)

If you just want pre-formatted text, indent 4 spaces:

```
here's some text in the code fence with no language identifier

```

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