Re: unicode graphics and 8 bit ascii g. ???

Nenad Aliix (nen...@gmx.li) asked --

> Does any1 know if there exists something similar to
> ascii graphic for various 8-bit codes for other
> languages than English or something like unicode
> graphics which uses symbols and signs included
> in unicode .

Big Five, a double-byte encoding used for Chinese, includes a lot of
shapes that seem to be intended for use in creating character graphics,
much like the box-drawing characters in IBM code page 437 (the eight-bit
character set of the original IBM Personal Computer). I've seen BBS
sites in Taiwan with very complex drawings made of these characters.

> If so can y pls send me pictures or give me a url ?

Sorry, I don't have any of that to hand. You would need a Big Five
system to view the stuff anyway, unless I captured and sent it in bitmap
form, which I've never tried.

Speaking of code page 437, there was a post here in a.a-a just the other
day in CP437 encoding -- something-something-death, the one in French.
Looks pretty nifty in MS/PC DOS, but (I assume) incomprehensible in most
other systems.

Dan Strychalski                dski at cameonet, cameo, com, tw (no _x_)