Re: ACII-art on nokia phones??

.----- On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:17:08 GMT, Robert Fischer posted:
|On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 21:31:07 +0200, Veronica Karlsson
|<aci...@earthling.net> wrote:
|
|>> >> Anyone have any examples of ascii-art on nokia phones (for SMS messages), I
|>> >> saw a few a few days ago in a pub, and they where quite funny,
|>> >I'm sure most of the regulars here have tons of small images, but we
|>> >need to know a little bit more about the format:
|>> >* Size? (rows x columns)
|>> 4 lines with variably columns, depends on the characters you use
|>> if you only use '.' you can put more than 'M'
|>
|>Are you saying that it uses a proportional font?
|
|Yes, after every character there is one blank (1 pixel)
|exept the underscore - there is no blank.
|
|>> >* What characters can be used?
|>> Every letters and the following:
|>> 
|>> . , ? ! : ; - + # *
|>> ( ) ' " _ @ & $ X %
|>> / < > X X � = X X X
|>> 
|>> (the X means some characters which are not on my keyboard)
|>numbers?
|
|Shit, I forgot - yes, there are also numbers.
|Shure, it's a telephone.
|
|>> >* Any special problems one has to consider?
|>> maximum is (I think its true) 160 characters inclusive blanks.
|>Are you sure it's not 4 rows x 40 columns and using a monospaced font?
|
|I tested it. You can put 27 '.' or
|10 'M' into 1 row or
|
|>> >I read a couple of the replies and I got the impression you can do
|>> >"multi screen" sequences. Is that correct?
|>> If you display the message, you see the first 4 lines.
|>> After pressing the down key, you see the next 4 lines.
|>> And so on - or also backwards.
|>ok  :)
|>
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Basically, It's going to be impossible to make ascii pics for your phone
because it uses a proportional font which few (if any) of the newsgroup
regulars have seen. If you don't know why, see the FAQ:
http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ada/aaafaq.txt

Also, not having a backslash would be restrictive. Slashes and Backslashes
are the basis of a lot of ASCII Art.

So, anything anyone makes will probably need respacing to work with the font
on your phone.

One final question... I've seen phones with a whole variety of fonts... some
have fixed-width (they have 'character boxes' which can hold exactly one
character) and a few had proportional fonts (true LCD screen, with the whole
panel pixelled, rather than boxes for forming characters) - and the fonts
were all different. This means that unless your recipient has a fixed width
font phone, or exactly the same font as you --- you can't do it.

If it's a fixed-width font on your recipient's, you can reproduce *exactly*
what you see on the screen with the same amount of every character. On your
phone you will see the same sort of effect that you get when looking at
monospaced asciiart in 'Arial' ... but the recipient should get it so long
as the phone has a fixed-width font.

-Martin
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