Re: curious about coloring ascii

In article<OztH8.1135$R_4...@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>, Jason Weiss
<jas...@hotmail.com> writes:
>Hey all, 1st time poster here, and all i have is a question :-)
>I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art.

 The answer is, you can't.  Ascii art is made with PRINTABLE ASCII
 CHARACTERS, displayed in a mono-spaced, typewriter, font.  It has
 NO COLOUR CODES (sorry for shouting but it needs to be made clear).  


>I know there are raw color codes, but have no idea what exactly they are and
>how to add them in.
>I also checked and there are supposedly a few programs that will help you
>colorize the art as well, but none of the ones that i checked out were good.
>What I need is one that will save to a .txt file with the color codes in
>there.  Found one that I could color with (ASCII Editor), but it wouldn't
>save the colors.
>Any help?

 There is a wider alphabet called ANSI which has colour codes, but
 not everybody has it and anyway, it's not ascii.

 When you put ascii pictures into an HTML web-page, you can also
 use HTML commands to colorise them -- see examples on my website below.

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  //\c{}   /\\   //\   Y U <\\   //D /\\ _O)  [fish saloon--all sorts of
  V__)_:::_\_U:::V_/_::::^:::::::V_)_\_V_(\):::::::::::::fish sold here]
  http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/art/penguins.html