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Wait... That's not ASCII!
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
Wait... That's not ASCII!
- saulpw 3y agoNeither is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but no one blinks at that kind of text art anymore. Unicode is everywhere--even if not all glyphs are supported, the vast majority of the BMP is. ASCII-only art is a relic like trigraphs. Also note that most ASCII art is actually CP437 or "extended ASCII", so it was never even pure ASCII in the first place.
- adityaathalye 3y agoTrue, it is unicode. I would argue text art evolved with the, ah, Times. If anything, crafting with unicode brings its own set of challenges alongside those of old skool ASCII art. A bigger character palette, yes, but also variable character widths. Composing is less obvious. Your remark prompted me to look up the Wikipedia page for ASCII art, and according to that page, unicode is indeed the "new skool" of the form. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art#Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art#Unicode That said, I'm hardly an artist and present this as my layperson's understanding.