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The word "ASCII" was a grotesque, artistic verbal presentation choice for the substance of content I intended to convey :) I figured it supports UTF-8. I belie

The word "ASCII" was a grotesque, artistic verbal presentation choice for the substance of content I intended to convey :) I figured it supports UTF-8. I believe the gist of my point is still valid. Images are content. Layout is content. Typesetting is content. All are components of expression.

JdeBP 2y ago
Alas, it isn't valid if one goes beyond even reading the doco. The underlying library that the tool uses, click (https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/), turns out to include the idea that the "tweet" strings can contain ECMA-48 control sequences. This permits not only boldface and italics, but also (on very old terminals and very modern terminal emulators) underline, strikethrough, faint, reverse video, invisible, and even 8 whole colours. (-: Again, though, I expect that in the 9 years of the system's existence, no-one has actually used this in earnest. In part, this is because the default mode seems to be to apply a regular expression substitution to attempt to strip out control sequences, because of course ECMA-48 and ECMA-35 are over-expressive permitting things like OSC, NEL, PM, APC, cursor motions ("layout is content"), insert/delete/erase, and code page changes. Amusingly, the regular expression substitution is not based upon an understanding of ECMA-35 and is faulty.
maximinus_thrax 2y ago
> The word "ASCII" was a grotesque, artistic verbal presentation choice for the substance of content I intended to convey :) Is this GPT generated? I find it hard to believe someone actually talks/writes like this.
- sssilver 2y ago
  I promise it isn’t. English however isn’t my native language — I grew up in Armenia, with Armenian as my native tongue and Russian as my first “foreign” language.
  - maximinus_thrax 2y ago
    Interesting. I'm in a similar situation, but my first foreign language was French. I believe the source of English education makes a difference. In my case, it was Rambo movies :))

JdeBP 2y ago

Alas, it isn't valid if one goes beyond even reading the doco. The underlying library that the tool uses, click (https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/), turns out to include the idea that the "tweet" strings can contain ECMA-48 control sequences. This permits not only boldface and italics, but also (on very old terminals and very modern terminal emulators) underline, strikethrough, faint, reverse video, invisible, and even 8 whole colours. (-: Again, though, I expect that in the 9 years of the system's existence, no-one has actually used this in earnest. In part, this is because the default mode seems to be to apply a regular expression substitution to attempt to strip out control sequences, because of course ECMA-48 and ECMA-35 are over-expressive permitting things like OSC, NEL, PM, APC, cursor motions ("layout is content"), insert/delete/erase, and code page changes. Amusingly, the regular expression substitution is not based upon an understanding of ECMA-35 and is faulty.

maximinus_thrax 2y ago

> The word "ASCII" was a grotesque, artistic verbal presentation choice for the substance of content I intended to convey :) Is this GPT generated? I find it hard to believe someone actually talks/writes like this.

sssilver 2y ago
I promise it isn’t. English however isn’t my native language — I grew up in Armenia, with Armenian as my native tongue and Russian as my first “foreign” language.
- maximinus_thrax 2y ago
  Interesting. I'm in a similar situation, but my first foreign language was French. I believe the source of English education makes a difference. In my case, it was Rambo movies :))