Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
From Gerfried Fuchs <alf...@innocent.com>
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· 4 Apr 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Ian Howlett <ih...@ukc.ac.uk> wrote: > There's lots of spaces, often at the start of a line. > Spaces are used differently to those in text. > There are few tab characters used. None, if you are precise. Otherwise it wouldn't be ASCII Art :-) > Many non-alphanumeric characters are used. Well. It don't think that you can find a script that catches most of the arts. Why? Some are very small, some are larger. Some even use just words you find in a dictionary, or even consist of plain HTML (like VK's NO HTML ;)). It fully depends on the artist what characters he like to use. There are even arts around that just use 8, d, b P q and so on - and nothing that isn't alphanumeric. So I simply think it's hard to judge. Just stick to this simple rule: Use always an monospaced font - you don't know what you'd miss otherwise ;) What for do you want to do such a thing? > If you can add any more features, such as the alphabetic characters > that you use a lot of, then I'd be most grateful. As mentioned above - that depends fully on the artist. Some use J and F for lines, others are only /, \ and so forth. I wish you _much_ luck with you - you will need it desperately! Alfie -- Sheu bleibt scheu: Linux - Daran kommt man nicht vorbei! -- <http://www.sloganizer.de/>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c288d57efd7c580d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: alf...@innocent.com (Gerfried Fuchs) Subject: Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails Date: 2000/04/04 Message-ID: <200...@skater.priv.at>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 606511576 References: <38E...@ukc.ac.uk> X-Signature-Color: cyan Comments: This is my personal opinion... X-Editor: Vim - Vi IMproved <http://www.vim.org/> X-Signature-Prg: sigd/0.8.2 (Perl) <http://alfie.ist.org/sigd/> X-newsgroup: alt.ascii-art Organization: FAQ-Team for at.linux User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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