Iljitsch, That "box" shows up as complete gibberish in a plain-text mail reader (pine in my case), which sort of proves the point about ASCII. What you sent was certainly not ASCII. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 2 jul 2009, at 17:05, Stewart Bryant wrote: > > > > >A much better solution would be HTML > > > >This seems obviously true everywhere outside the IETF mailing list. > > > >The showstopper has always been with figures which need to do in separate > >files. How do you manipulate the collection of files as a single object? > > Multiple files seems problematic. > > However, we can stick with ASCII art even if we adopt HTML. > > ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━┓ > ┃ An influx of a (hopefully limited) set │ of unicode symbols┃ > ┃ could allow for more expressiveness in │ this area. ┃ > ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━┛ >
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