X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 X-Google-Thread: f996b,c778b88f25f30e13 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-27 09:07:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: =?Windows-1252?Q?Johannes_'Joey'_R=F6ssel?= Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art posting statistics for the last 30 days Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:32:33 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1009472657 01 8212 VmgYTUZTbIaY-k 011227 17:04:17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 038100090476-0001@t-dialin.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12903 > But how is this created? How are quoted lines determined? E.g. > > >191) ��BaDStylE�� �...............................................: 0.0% 0.0% > > uses a | as quoting char - and maybe some others in this group, too. Looking for the quoting chars may produce some other problems, e.g. when someone posts an ASCII image which has a straight line at the left, made by '|' chars, the whole image would be counted as quote. Maybe a rather accurate method would be to look for lines that are exactly the same shifted by one or two characters. > obAscii (changed and enhanced) > > \\ \/ // > /\ (English quotes) > > \/ \\ > // /\ (German quotes) > > \\ \/ // > // /\ \\ (French quotes(?)) // \/ \\ \\ /\ // (Swiss quotes) > \ \/ > / /\ (Usenet quotes, normally) | \/ | /\ (Usenet quotes, used by some other people) . \/ . /\ (Usenet quotes, also selectable in my newsreader, but not seen yet) Joey