[libcaca] Re: libcaca: svn commit r325 (sam)

[Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006, John Beppu wrote:

> I'm kinda happy to see unicode being included, because ASCII art seems
> to be alive and well on sites like 2ch.net.  (Technically, it's not
> really ASCII, but art using fixed-width letters is close enough.)

   Indeed. Unfortunately 2ch art mostly uses variable-width cells and
this is not something I can see arrive in libcaca in the near future,
except for double width characters (kanjis, kanas, and the double width
ASCII). I have found some rather decent fixed-width Unicode art. There
is a 0.001% chance that this will come out OK in an email, but let's
try:

      　 　∧＿∧　　 　┌──────────
       ◯ （´∀｀）◯  ＜ OMG HY!!!
      　 ＼　　／　 　└──────────
      　_／ ＿ ＼_
      （＿／　＼＿）
      　　ｌｌｌ

   The main reasons why I wanted Unicode were the 25/50/75% gray glyphs
and the rest of the ANSI-art characters (also known as IBM Codepage 437)
that can be used in the Windows console, which is what many Win32 text
demos do. Examples:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/TheDraw_ANSI.png
    http://wiw.org/~corey/lj/skagoth.jpg

   There are even extensions to IBM's half-block glyphs in Unicode that
make the 16 quarter-block combinations glyphs available:

      ▌ ▞▖▌ ▌
      ▙▖▚▘▙▖▖

   And there must be a use for those planes, telephones, skulls and
chess pieces! (✈ ☎ ☯ ♔ ☠ ❄ ❋ ❈ ❄ ❆ ✺ ✼ ✰ ✪ ✳ ✢ ✦ ★ ☃ ♤)

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Sam.
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