Talk: Non-standard ASCII art

bob...@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
>Tony Nugent <T.N...@sct.gu.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>Another faq perhaps? ...
>>
>>Is there any art using the full complement of IBM 8-bit characters?
>>(Or does this specifically make this "non-ascii" art?)

>   I imagine that it would be called non-standard ASCII art.

You would call it ''IBM-ANSI'' and I am sorry, but if want to post anything
containing IBM 8-bit characters, you would have to uuencode it first.

IBM-ANSI looks really really great on IBM machines, but on the net, there
are actually rather few of those.  NON-IBM machines tend to get screwed
up by many of those characters, which are used by them as control characters.

At best, if things work out ok, something that in IBM -ANSI looks about
like this

||
||
||
||
LL======

will look about like this for all those who use the ISO 8859-1 8-bit
set which has become the de-facto-standard on the net.

1/3
1/3
1/3
1/3
3 3 ..........
_ _ A A A A A

Unfair enough, the designers of ISO 8859-* used only characters, that
aren't used as control characters by any machines on the net, thus
making it possible, to use it everywhere, and it could become a standard,
while IBM-ANSI could not.  The worst that can happen to the ISO 8859-*
characters is, that the 8th bit gets stripped off, turning

..
O  to +

..
o  to v

..
a  to d

and so on...  that's why my name in some ascii-collection happens to
be misspelled "Svren" instead of ISO 8859-1 "Svren" or...
 ..             ^
Soren

              .oooooo..o  o8o   o8o                                
             d8P'    `Y8  `"'   `"'                                
             Y88bo.        .ooooo.  oooo d8b  .ooooo.  ooo. .oo.   
              `"Y8888o.   d88' `88b `888""8P d88' `88b `888P"Y88b  
                  `"Y88b  888   888  888     888ooo888  888   888  
             oo     .d8P  888   888  888     888    .o  888   888  
             8""88888P'   `Y8bod8P' d888b    `Y8bod8P' o888o o888o 

(thanx to Tuor aka Nick for including German characters in roman.flf ! :-) )
-- 
Soeren M Soerries  eoo.   eoooo  ,oo.   eo oo ,ooo.  *   eoo.   eo oo  eoooo
Breul 43,         d8oob  d8oo   d8odP  dP8dP  8oo.  op  dP db  d8odP  d8oo
48143 Muenster,  d8ooP' d8ooo  dP dP  dP 8P  booP' dP  d8ooP  dP dP  d8ooo
Germany. tlf: voice 0251-51378, data 0251-56822, soe...@beansidhe.ms.sub.org

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