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Context is important, ya know? If we're talking about text encodings, that's one thing, but we're talking about drawing. "ASCII text" drawing was never entirely
by samatman 3y ago
Context is important, ya know? If we're talking about text encodings, that's one thing, but we're talking about drawing. "ASCII text" drawing was never entirely limited to ASCII even in the days of single-byte encodings. There were code pages which used the high bit for more useful drawing glyphs, people took advantage of that when they could.
The concept of an extended ASCII encoding goes way back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII, and UTF-8 is just another extended ASCII encoding, albeit a very clever one, with a lot of codepoints.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoExtended supersets of a thing are not the thing, they are a larger group.
- oasisaimlessly 3y agoSee synecdoche: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
- throwaway290 3y agoNeither a superset or subset of a thing is the thing. Only the thing is the thing. But when you combine units of language the result is not just the sum of the parts. word1 means X and word2 means Y but established phrase "word1 word2" rarely means X + Y. The result relates to X and Y but it has a life of its own that depends on how it's used. Think of these and how they are more than sum of their parts. Demo scene. Serverless. Skyscraper. Information security. Artificial intelligence. Drawing board.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoAre you saying we should reserve the term "ASCII art" literally for text containing just the original 95 printable characters? Even if you can make a good argument for that, I fear you're fighting a losing battle.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoYes, the terms ANSI art and Unicode art have been around for decades and are defined standards as well. No need to make an argument.