True, 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 o

True, 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.