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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Apr 2000.
Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote:

: No, but the point was that it wouldn't survive Henry Segerman's
: suggestion that one use a spell checker to identify what's _ascii art_.
: That *might* work, for *some* pictures, *if* everybody wrote in English
: (assuming that it would be an English spell checker). That method would
: not work for text in other languages, or for those visual poems somebody
: posted here a while ago...

You could include very common but multiple letter words like 'the' in as
many languages as you want. I'm guessing that in the end the decision as
to wether something is ascii art or not is going to come down to adding up
a number of factors with weightings and comparing against a threshold value.
So anything we can say about what ascii art usually is is good.

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From: Henry Segerman <sjo...@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
Date: 2000/04/07
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