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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Figlet cyrillic, chinese, arabic ETC.
Date: 1997/04/03
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.970403173142.5012A-100000@leonis.nus.sg>, 
"yA-aLiP.." <sci50743@leonis.nus.sg> writes:
>> |> > 
>> |> >                        /   |  _     \ |        | |
>> |> >                     _o_\_,_;_(_  ,o _\;__,_,_,_; :
>> |> >                    (    ..      (
>> |> > 
>
>   this one reads as follows: Assalaamua'laikum
>    which means : Peace be upon you.
>
>P/s: This is obviously in Ascii as such it;s kinda difficult to 
>     figure it out...nonetheless i personally feel it is tastefully done.

Oh yes, it's ascii art -- we've had figlet roman fonts. We've
had homebrew cyrillic fonts. Also greetings in Chinese ideograms.
And now we have Arabic...
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