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Unfortunately, the world is stuck on CLIs that provide us only with ascii text, although some provide Unicode. It's 2019, and we're still dealing with side eff
by bb88 8y ago
Unfortunately, the world is stuck on CLIs that provide us only with ascii text, although some provide Unicode.
It's 2019, and we're still dealing with side effects of ascii art, a throwback from the 1970s.
- zapzupnz 8y agoASCII art, Unicode art, it doesn't matter what encoding you use, the result will look the same. Sometimes it's useful to represent things in text — are you going to tell us that if I should want to make a simple diagram in my code's comments, I should embed a large PNG file into a text file in order to achieve it?
- bb88 8y agoDoesn't markdown do this currently? Not by embedding, but by referencing an existing image?