X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f1109e89c6ab007e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-27 08:17:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Tom Bampton" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ascii art underground Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:17:56 +0100 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: edendev.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1033139855 5530 193.237.172.117 (27 Sep 2002 15:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:17:35 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:19721 > A. ansi/ascii viewer same thing, I refferd to it as an ascii with with ansi No it's not. ANSI is a completely different standard that just happens to share some of the same codes as ASCII (the first 128, but not always). > support because, if you know nothing of remorse or ACiD you know nothing of > the actuall organized computer art scene. Also some ascii's do have extended > ascii codes for shaping, where most veiwers (notepad etc) They're called ANSI. Not ASCII. > will NOT display these correctly, along with a fixedsys font. > also some ascii I or others in these groups draw, sometimes contain ansi > codes for color etc.... So that's great you know what it is > but for those who don't, there ya go. As stated, ANSI is a different standard. You are an ANSI group that has nothing whatsoever to do with ASCII. I draw your attention to the AAA FAQ, section 13... * ANSI,`extended ASCII' or `high ASCII', and non-Western font art. Many computer systems have an extended character set of 256 or more characters, based on the ANSI, Unicode or BIG5 character sets and having the first 128 characters possibly identical to ASCII. These characters should not be sent to news:alt.ascii-art because many computer system types do not display them properly, even those that do, do not display them in a standard way, for example, the Windows ANSI character set is different to the Macintosh ANSI character set. Capture and send a GIF of it to news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii or put it on a Web page instead, and post a reference to it to news:alt.ascii-art. Alternatively, post it to news:rec.arts.ascii (see below). Whilst you havent actually posted ANSI, it still has nothing to do with this group. Do a search on google groups for "[info] alt.ascii-art FAQ" to read the full FAQ.