Re: ascii ansi?

> All this ascii art i see nowadays, isn't it really ANSI art?  I mean,
> this windows stuff only gives 127 characters to use.

In this group (and for that matter according to RFC 20 I think) ASCII is
defined as a 7-bit text encoding scheme.  7 bits allows for 128 possible
characters (including control codes).

ASCII is in no way Windows-specific.  All text displays I know (except for
the Timex/Sinclair 1000 :) use ASCII or some variant of it for character
codes 0-127.

> At least you can't use the good old 176, 177, 178 and 219 which i
> think REALLY was the ascii art.  Looked more like graphics, eh?

What you are referring to is what I like to call "High" ASCII.  Different
character sets contain different definitions for these characters.  In
DOS, the "IBM Codepage 437" character set is generally used, which is most
likely what you're accustomed to.

This character set is often associated with ANSI, but it is NOT
ANSI!  ANSI is an encoding scheme for cursor controls, colors, and other
terminal functions, and doesn't explicitly define a character set to use.

The characters you use with most ANSI are are simply that, a character
set, Codepage 437 in particular.

> Just take a look at the txt.  View it in notepad, then in DOS and see
> the difference.

Windows and most UNIX boxes on the Internet use some variant of ISO-8859
(ISO Latin).  I use ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1, the most common) myself as
well, and your "Skull" artwork thus does not work on my display.

The differences you see between Windows and DOS is exactly why artwork in
this group is restricted to 7-bit ASCII in the 32-126 character code
range, because *that* is ASCII, and it doesn't vary between systems nearly
as wildly as codes 128-255.

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