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From: mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP)
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Subject: Re: sms ascii art
Date: 06 Feb 2002 03:16:35 GMT
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:52:42 GMT, rayo@number.net wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 14:48:33 +0100, "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt"
><lastfuture@lastfuture.de> wrote:
>
>>ascii art needs a fixed width font if it uses more than one line and
>>even if it only uses one line it still is unpredictable if sent to a
>>phone with different character widths
>
>ASCII art need not be limited to fixed width. The creator needs only to
>specify the proper viewing font. It just that nobody has done it yet.

battle on then