Re: [rfc-i] What are current rules on non-ascii in documents?

Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> Thu, 15 February 2024 11:46 UTC

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Oooh. Maybe I should change the name to aa2unibox?

Tom

> On Feb 15, 2024, at 12:25 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 15, 2024, at 00:05, Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You could write it ascii art and see how that looked or run aa2unicode on it and see if you liked unicode better.
> 
> ➔
> You could write it traditional ascii-only art with -+| and see how that looked or run aa2unicode on it and see if you liked box drawing characters better.
> 
> FTFY.
> 
> (Its Unicode in both cases.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> PS. Now if I knew why my (chromium-based) browser does this:
> 
> <PastedGraphic-1.png>
> 
> 
> Looks fine in emacs (using “Hack” font):
> 
> % aa2unicode ip.txt
> 0                   1                   2                   3
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
> ┌───────┬───────┬───────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
> │Version│  IHL  │Type of Service│          Total Length         │
> ├───────┴───────┴───────────────┼─────┬─────────────────────────┤
> │         Identification        │Flags│     Fragment Offset     │
> ├───────────────┬───────────────┼─────┴─────────────────────────┤
> │  Time to Live │    Protocol   │        Header Checksum        │
> ├───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────────────────────┤
> │                         Source Address                        │
> ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │                      Destination Address                      │
> ├───────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┤
> │                    Options                    │    Padding    │
> └───────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
>