Re: can you improve this ?
From Dave Bird <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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· 26 May 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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In article<3930c0dc.24685936@news-server>, Bill K <jsa...@NObayouBULK.uh.edu> writes: >Hello, > >I am new to ascii art. I don't intend this to sound rude. But why >does it matter if a character is not on the ascii chart? I thought >there were 256 characters in the ascii set anyways... Simple question, simple answer: First, readers may not guarantee to have the nonstandard character so they won't see it correctly. Second, news-servers in the transmission chain might not transmit it properly either, so it would get along the way. Thus I like my cat with nonstandard '': characters like this....... Dave[XEMU] ________________(....=^��^=______ ---<,,"> But they might get dropped or not displayed so you see this........... Dave[XEMU] ________________(....=^^=______ ---<,,"> So the well-behaved thing is to substitute like this..... -- Dave[XEMU] ________________(....=^oo^=______ ---<,,"> If you make it idiot proof, somebody will just invent a better idiot.
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