X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,e6bf8155ded630d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-24 14:41:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "��BaDStylE�� �" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Request : NFO TEXT GENERATOR Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <3c271ac8@news.swissonline.ch> <4aee0d8f3dJeremy@omba.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-122-1-131.btinternet.com X-Trace: knossos.btinternet.com 1009233601 13734 213.122.1.131 (24 Dec 2001 22:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@knossos.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:40:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12744 Ooooooooooooh! I getcha! So if somebody put in a dollar sign to give some kind effect and in somebody else machine it was a bullet point? ��B�� "Jeremy C B Nicoll" wrote in message news:4aee0d8f3dJeremy@omba.demon.co.uk... | | > Why do special character's pose a problem for ascii art if for example | > everybody uses Courier New as the font of choice for viewing .txt files? | | > If this sounds stupid please forgive, quite new to ascii art. :) | | It might depend on what you mean by "special characters". If all people | viewing ascii art use machines which map characters onto standard | positions in ascii, then no problem, but it goes belly-up if brackets and | currency symbols and things like ^ are not at the same code points for | everyone. | | -- | Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.