Re: Request : NFO TEXT GENERATOR
From "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" <lastfuture@lastfuture.de>
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· 30 Dec 2001 19:02 · View full thread
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 20:27:39 +0000 (GMT), Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jer...@omba.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> Why do special character's pose a problem for ascii art if for example >> everybody uses Courier New as the font of choice for viewing .txt files? > >> If this sounds stupid please forgive, quite new to ascii art. :) > >It might depend on what you mean by "special characters". If all people >viewing ascii art use machines which map characters onto standard >positions in ascii, then no problem, but it goes belly-up if brackets and >currency symbols and things like ^ are not at the same code points for >everyone. ^ is a valid ascii character and mapped the same everywhere. invalid are for example: � � � � � � � � � � � as they differ in most fonts -- ' + ` . ,-------------. + . ` . * ' \/ * . __ . ( alt.ascii-art ) . . ,-----------. ` (oO) -._'"- ( ,. _.' `-------------' ' ( you said it )_,' vv . `" `-` . ' * ` + `-----------' . JL
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