Re: ascii art for email and much more! (was: Copyright Notice, blah blah blah)

Hey! PC! You didn't even have to go out and find a course in computer 
science, it came to you! :D

(and it is one of the prettiest computer courses I have ever seen :)

Bo Elovson Grey wrote:
> 
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> |Ok, let's have another go at that beloved ASCII-topic. Let's get technical.
> |ALL the characters in the ASCII-standard are those you can see on that
> |nifty table VK posts now and then.

The "nifty table" was originally something I copied from the depths of the
unix system here at my school:

     |  0 NUL|  1 SOH|  2 STX|  3 ETX|  4 EOT|  5 ENQ|  6 ACK|  7 BEL|
     |  8 BS |  9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI |
     | 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB|
     | 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US |
     | 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |
     | 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |
     | 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |
     | 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |
     | 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |
     | 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |
     | 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |
     | 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |
     | 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |
     |104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |
     |112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |
     |120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |127 DEL|

which llizard then improved a little with special thought to be used in 
ascii art:


 ===================================================================
 }|  No, no, no, MUSTN'T use these:                               |{
 }|                                                               |{
 }|  0 NUL|  1 SOH|  2 STX|  3 ETX|  4 EOT|  5 ENQ|  6 ACK|  7 BEL|{
 }|  8 BS |  9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI |{
 }| 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB|{
 }| 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US |{
 }|       |                                                       |{
 }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{
 }| Yes, yes, yes, MUST use these:                                |{
 }|                                                               |{
 }| 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |{
 }| 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |{
 }| 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |{
 }| 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |{
 }| 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |{
 }| 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |{
 }| 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |{
 }| 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |{
 }| 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |{
 }|104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |{
 }|112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |{
 }|120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |       |{
 }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{
 }| No, no, no, MUST'NT use this one either:                      |{
 }|                                                       |127 DEL|{
 ===================================================================


> | Each character has its own 7-bit code.
> |What the computer sees when it reads an ASCII-picture is a bunch of 7-bit
> |binary numbers. So, when the computer reads 1100001 (97) it writes an 'a'
> |with its standard- or selected font. Neither coordinates nor size are given
> |. It just says 'a'. (I made the example on the fly, please correct me if I
> |got the numbers wrong).

The numbers look right to me :)

> | If the file for example contains pixeldata, like a
> |GIF image, or formatting and colourdata, like HTML, it isn't an ASCII no
> |matter how many 'true' characters you use. The only way to develop ASCII
> |further is to change the standard to, let's say an 8-bit (or better still
> |16-bit or 32-bit or...) character-table. However, the ASCII-table is only
> |7-bit (128 different combos). That's the hard facts of life. Anything else
> |is character art or art that happens to contain characters. Keep on
> |developing character art! I like to watch it, on a WEBPAGE! /\
> |___________________________________________________________/  \

(I wonder how much PC understands of computers... you might be talking over
his head here...)

>                                                                 \_________.
>                                                                           |
>                                      \|||/                                |
> ,____________________________________('o`)________________________________|
> |I don't like html in either e-mail or news.  Please don't use html in your
> |news articles. Why? My news-reader, Knews, doesn't handle html and looking
> |at html in Pine doesn't make me happier.

I get an ugly error message if I try to do that...

> | The reason I, and many others,
> |use those programs is that they're stunningly quick.

I fear PC thinks a PC is "stunningly quick"... :(

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> |_________________________________________________________________________
>                                 |
>                                 |
>                                \|/
>                                -*-
>                                /|\ (Det var den fulaste spindel jag sett!)
> 

("spindel"? Var d�? ;)

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-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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