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They preclude ASCII, but not Unicode diagrams. Unicode block characters have constant width. Unicode also contains fixed-width equivalents to ASCII letters: ａ
by rhn_mk1 3y ago
They preclude ASCII, but not Unicode diagrams.
Unicode block characters have constant width.
Unicode also contains fixed-width equivalents to ASCII letters: ａｂｃ. Just add 0xFEE0 to the code point.
And 0x3000 is an ideographic space, with the same width.
+---------+
| | +--------------+
| NFS |--+ | |
| | | +-->| CacheFS |
+---------+ | +----------+ | | /dev/hda5 |
| | | | +--------------+
turns into
＋－－－－－－－－－＋
｜ ｜ ＋－－－－－－－－－－－－－－＋
｜ ＮＦＳ ｜－－＋ ｜ ｜
｜ ｜ ｜ ＋－－＞｜ ＣａｃｈｅＦＳ ｜
＋－－－－－－－－－＋ ｜ ＋－－－－－－－－－－＋ ｜ ｜ ／ｄｅｖ／ｈｄａ５ ｜
｜ ｜ ｜ ｜ ＋－－－－－－－－－－－－－－＋
EDIT: which would have looked much better had HN not replaced full spaces with the narrow kind.
- kazinator 3y ago... but issues would never happen outside of HN, so this is all cool.
- Kwpolska 3y agoThose diagrams might look nice, but are hard to edit (for your average user without a CJK input method) and hard to copy things from (you can't get the string /dev/hda5 from your example, you'll get something Linux won't do anything meaningful with.)
- rhn_mk1 3y agoI don't think diagrams are meant to be copy-pasted from a lot, so I'm not worried about that. For editing, I'd just use a conversion tool, and edit it in a fixed-width editor rather than directly in code. Yes, it's an extra tool, but I don't think it's that outlandish to edit pictures in a tool for editing pictures.
- hollerith 3y agoMy experience is that I get annoyed when text isn't copyable whether or not the author means for it to be copyable.