X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,5c9969e16e01fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: ascii art for email and much more! (was: Copyright Notice, blah blah blah) Date: 1997/09/03 Message-ID: <340DBE51.ABD322C@nospam.sm.luth.se> X-Deja-AN: 269754524 References: <19970902022301.WAA26418@ladder02.news.aol.com> <340C241A.2C67412E@nospam.sm.luth.se> <19970902223700.SAA28969@ladder02.news.aol.com> <5ukboj$f81$1@news.lth.se> Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Hey! PC! You didn't even have to go out and find a course in computer science, it came to you! :D (and it is one of the prettiest computer courses I have ever seen :) Bo Elovson Grey wrote: > [ 8< ] > |Ok, let's have another go at that beloved ASCII-topic. Let's get technical. > |ALL the characters in the ASCII-standard are those you can see on that > |nifty table VK posts now and then. The "nifty table" was originally something I copied from the depths of the unix system here at my school: | 0 NUL| 1 SOH| 2 STX| 3 ETX| 4 EOT| 5 ENQ| 6 ACK| 7 BEL| | 8 BS | 9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI | | 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB| | 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US | | 32 SP | 33 ! | 34 " | 35 # | 36 $ | 37 % | 38 & | 39 ' | | 40 ( | 41 ) | 42 * | 43 + | 44 , | 45 - | 46 . | 47 / | | 48 0 | 49 1 | 50 2 | 51 3 | 52 4 | 53 5 | 54 6 | 55 7 | | 56 8 | 57 9 | 58 : | 59 ; | 60 < | 61 = | 62 > | 63 ? | | 64 @ | 65 A | 66 B | 67 C | 68 D | 69 E | 70 F | 71 G | | 72 H | 73 I | 74 J | 75 K | 76 L | 77 M | 78 N | 79 O | | 80 P | 81 Q | 82 R | 83 S | 84 T | 85 U | 86 V | 87 W | | 88 X | 89 Y | 90 Z | 91 [ | 92 \ | 93 ] | 94 ^ | 95 _ | | 96 ` | 97 a | 98 b | 99 c |100 d |101 e |102 f |103 g | |104 h |105 i |106 j |107 k |108 l |109 m |110 n |111 o | |112 p |113 q |114 r |115 s |116 t |117 u |118 v |119 w | |120 x |121 y |122 z |123 { |124 | |125 } |126 ~ |127 DEL| which llizard then improved a little with special thought to be used in ascii art: =================================================================== }| No, no, no, MUSTN'T use these: |{ }| |{ }| 0 NUL| 1 SOH| 2 STX| 3 ETX| 4 EOT| 5 ENQ| 6 ACK| 7 BEL|{ }| 8 BS | 9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI |{ }| 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB|{ }| 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US |{ }| | |{ }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{ }| Yes, yes, yes, MUST use these: |{ }| |{ }| 32 SP | 33 ! | 34 " | 35 # | 36 $ | 37 % | 38 & | 39 ' |{ }| 40 ( | 41 ) | 42 * | 43 + | 44 , | 45 - | 46 . | 47 / |{ }| 48 0 | 49 1 | 50 2 | 51 3 | 52 4 | 53 5 | 54 6 | 55 7 |{ }| 56 8 | 57 9 | 58 : | 59 ; | 60 < | 61 = | 62 > | 63 ? |{ }| 64 @ | 65 A | 66 B | 67 C | 68 D | 69 E | 70 F | 71 G |{ }| 72 H | 73 I | 74 J | 75 K | 76 L | 77 M | 78 N | 79 O |{ }| 80 P | 81 Q | 82 R | 83 S | 84 T | 85 U | 86 V | 87 W |{ }| 88 X | 89 Y | 90 Z | 91 [ | 92 \ | 93 ] | 94 ^ | 95 _ |{ }| 96 ` | 97 a | 98 b | 99 c |100 d |101 e |102 f |103 g |{ }|104 h |105 i |106 j |107 k |108 l |109 m |110 n |111 o |{ }|112 p |113 q |114 r |115 s |116 t |117 u |118 v |119 w |{ }|120 x |121 y |122 z |123 { |124 | |125 } |126 ~ | |{ }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{ }| No, no, no, MUST'NT use this one either: |{ }| |127 DEL|{ =================================================================== > | Each character has its own 7-bit code. > |What the computer sees when it reads an ASCII-picture is a bunch of 7-bit > |binary numbers. So, when the computer reads 1100001 (97) it writes an 'a' > |with its standard- or selected font. Neither coordinates nor size are given > |. It just says 'a'. (I made the example on the fly, please correct me if I > |got the numbers wrong). The numbers look right to me :) > | If the file for example contains pixeldata, like a > |GIF image, or formatting and colourdata, like HTML, it isn't an ASCII no > |matter how many 'true' characters you use. The only way to develop ASCII > |further is to change the standard to, let's say an 8-bit (or better still > |16-bit or 32-bit or...) character-table. However, the ASCII-table is only > |7-bit (128 different combos). That's the hard facts of life. Anything else > |is character art or art that happens to contain characters. Keep on > |developing character art! I like to watch it, on a WEBPAGE! /\ > |___________________________________________________________/ \ (I wonder how much PC understands of computers... you might be talking over his head here...) > \_________. > | > \|||/ | > ,____________________________________('o`)________________________________| > |I don't like html in either e-mail or news. Please don't use html in your > |news articles. Why? My news-reader, Knews, doesn't handle html and looking > |at html in Pine doesn't make me happier. I get an ugly error message if I try to do that... > | The reason I, and many others, > |use those programs is that they're stunningly quick. I fear PC thinks a PC is "stunningly quick"... :( [ 8< ] > |_________________________________________________________________________ > | > | > \|/ > -*- > /|\ (Det var den fulaste spindel jag sett!) > ("spindel"? Var d�? ;) [ 8< ] -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )