On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Douglas Otis wrote:
this could also mean utilizing graphical characters to create
clean lines, boxes, and borders. This could be a matter of the
character-repertoire going beyond ASCII in conjunction with a
drawing application. This approach should permit a simple
translation back into ASCII-artwork for the ASCII only version.
This won't work. Forget it.
The unicode box drawing characters (2500-257F) you used are
specifically for box and line drawing, but depend upon the line
spacing matching their point size. This can be used to create clean
drawings, when formating is controlled and perhaps output as PDF or
HTML, for example. These same characters can be translated into the
same dashed-line quality ASCII-artwork for the current US-ASCII
version RFCs.
Unicode does offer the possibility that artwork can look clean, but
font selection and line spacing must be controlled, which is not
practical in emails. : (
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-Doug
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