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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Feb 2002.
Re: sms ascii art

Re: sms ascii art

From ray...@number.net · alt.ascii-art · 6 Feb 2002 02:52 · View full thread · report
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 14:48:33 +0100, "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt"
<las...@lastfuture.de> wrote:

>ascii art needs a fixed width font if it uses more than one line and
>even if it only uses one line it still is unpredictable if sent to a
>phone with different character widths

ASCII art need not be limited to fixed width. The creator needs only to
specify the proper viewing font. It just that nobody has done it yet.

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