How characters will display will greatly depend on the character sets
implied and/or stated in the email headers (which depend on email clients,
code pages, ... and the phase of  the moon). The only universal character
set is plain old ascii.

Also, you have to worry about line wrapping at col 72 or possibly even less.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Black" <fastvid@EZY.NET.AU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: ANSI text "drawing" software


> Martin Peach wrote:
> >
> > > I just whipped up a sample:
> > > http://centauri.ezy.net.au/~fastvid/text.gif
> > >
> > > You can get quite a complex circuit in a tight
> > > space and it looks clean.
> > > With the right software to draw them it would be
> > > really easy to send circuits back and forth with
> > > quick changes. :o)
> > > -Roman
> >
> > But not everybody has that kind of display...
> > ...you can't complain about html postings and then post in ansi...I
think
> > ascii is more universal. The user just has to view it in a fixed width
font
> > such as Courier. This version should work on any terminal:
> >
> >                           |
> > +12V----------------------|--------*---------
> >                  +--------*        |
> >                  C        C        L1
> > In----R1-------B-Q1   +-B-Q2       |
> >                  E    |   E        |
> >                  |    +---|---*-R4-*---------Out
> >                  R2       R3  +-C1-+
> >                  |        |
> > Gnd--------------*--------*------------------
>
> Sure! No real problem to have a "mode" button to
> save the text in either mode. It doesn't really have
> to be ansi as such, most text character sets and windows
> fonts have those characters and since colour is not needed
> they should display on just about anything these days,
> pardon me linux people if i'm wrong. But the use of the
> proper line characters allows a compact neat diagram.
>
> Which buttons do you press on the PC keyboard to generate
> the extended characters? I've forgotten how to do it.
> Can anyone send some of the line chars to the list and
> see if they display?
> -Roman
>
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