Re: ACII-art on nokia phones??

On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:13:05 +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'

>* 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)

>* Any special problems one has to consider?

maximum is (I think its true) 160 characters inclusive blanks.

>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.



Robert
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exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has
tried to contact us.
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