X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4e675e98be4296fd,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Arindana" Subject: Re: What's an e-mailer with ASCII Art supposed to do? Date: 1997/08/06 Message-ID: <5saepj$e1f$1@news1symp.sympatico.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262833893 References: <33ef08e4.18259332@news.iglou.com> X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 Organization: Sympatico Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Redhead wrote in article <33ef08e4.18259332@news.iglou.com>... >More and more recipients of my e-mail with my sig or an ascii art >attached are replying, "By the way. What was that mess at the bottom >of your letter?" > >Seems most new e-mail programs and newsreaders are using type fonts >that totally screw-up the wonderful world of ASCII Art. > >Does anyone know of a way to ensure an e-mail is viewed as the sender >intended? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hate to see the >ultimate art form, deformed. > >redhead I had wondered the same thing when people emailed me and their sig never looked right. I discovered that it was as you said... the font of the receiver. To avoid this problem, ask to whome you are mailing to change their default font to courier. That should solve the problem. I think that is the only font that makes ascii-art look right. That's the only way that I know of that can fix the problem. There is nothing the sender can do. Similarly, the person creating the ascii art should aslo be in courier because it will also not look right and then you play to make it look right and the reciever will never get the right image no matter what font they are in, except of course if their font matches the one you created it in. ;) RJ