X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,4795adc8911a894 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,4795adc8911a894 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,4795adc8911a894 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-22 19:20:37 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: soeren@beansidhe.westfalen.de (Soeren M Soerries) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: Non-standard ASCII art Date: 22 Jun 1994 21:12:56 -0500 Organization: Some day we will all be geeks. Lines: 72 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@gagme.wwa.com Message-ID: <2uar38$dct@gagme.wwa.com> References: <2u4jme$6io@gagme.wwa.com> <2u7h7h$csq@gagme.wwa.com> <2u7hr5$db4@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: bga.com rec.arts.ascii:347 alt.ascii-art:9617 alt.binaries.pictures.ascii:755 boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes: >Tony Nugent wrote: >> >>Another faq perhaps? ... >> >>Is there any art using the full complement of IBM 8-bit characters? >>(Or does this specifically make this "non-ascii" art?) > I imagine that it would be called non-standard ASCII art. You would call it ''IBM-ANSI'' and I am sorry, but if want to post anything containing IBM 8-bit characters, you would have to uuencode it first. IBM-ANSI looks really really great on IBM machines, but on the net, there are actually rather few of those. NON-IBM machines tend to get screwed up by many of those characters, which are used by them as control characters. At best, if things work out ok, something that in IBM -ANSI looks about like this || || || || LL====== will look about like this for all those who use the ISO 8859-1 8-bit set which has become the de-facto-standard on the net. 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 3 3 .......... _ _ A A A A A Unfair enough, the designers of ISO 8859-* used only characters, that aren't used as control characters by any machines on the net, thus making it possible, to use it everywhere, and it could become a standard, while IBM-ANSI could not. The worst that can happen to the ISO 8859-* characters is, that the 8th bit gets stripped off, turning .. O to + .. o to v .. a to d and so on... that's why my name in some ascii-collection happens to be misspelled "Svren" instead of ISO 8859-1 "Svren" or... .. ^ Soren .oooooo..o o8o o8o d8P' `Y8 `"' `"' Y88bo. .ooooo. oooo d8b .ooooo. ooo. .oo. `"Y8888o. d88' `88b `888""8P d88' `88b `888P"Y88b `"Y88b 888 888 888 888ooo888 888 888 oo .d8P 888 888 888 888 .o 888 888 8""88888P' `Y8bod8P' d888b `Y8bod8P' o888o o888o (thanx to Tuor aka Nick for including German characters in roman.flf ! :-) ) -- Soeren M Soerries eoo. eoooo ,oo. eo oo ,ooo. * eoo. eo oo eoooo Breul 43, d8oob d8oo d8odP dP8dP 8oo. op dP db d8odP d8oo 48143 Muenster, d8ooP' d8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP' dP d8ooP dP dP d8ooo Germany. tlf: voice 0251-51378, data 0251-56822, soeren@beansidhe.ms.sub.org