[TxMt] Re: Feature request: .NFO file (ASCII-art)

[Johan Klintberg]

Yes, many fonts have the glyphs included in "Box drawing" and "Block  
elements" (Unicode 9472-9727), but the .nfo file expects those glyphs  
to reside inside "Latin-1 Supplement" (Unicode 0080 to 00FF) and if  
they don't, they don't show up.

The font "Lucida Console P" can correctly render the special  
characters needed in Latin-1 Supplement.
You can download the font at http://home.online.no/~aageli/luconP.ttf

This is the way a correctly .nfo file should end up looking like:
http://img492.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssnfoview7bn.png


I don't know if this is a success, but I'll copy-paste some nfo  
content as it looks with Monaco font. Might work, might not.

       ßÛÛ²°°°²²°  ÜÞÛ²²²²²²Û ßÛÛ²°°²ÛÛ  ß°    °²Û  ßÛ²°° °²ÛÛ   ° 
²ÛÛ   ÛÛ²°²ÛÝ
        ÞÛÛ²°°°°  ÛÛ ÛÛ²°°°°²ß ÞÛ²°°°²ÛÛÛ       °°ß  ÞÛ²°  °²ÛÛ  ° 
²ÛÛÜ ÛÛ²°°²ÛÛ
         ÛÛ²°° ° ÛÛ²Û ÛÛ²°° °   ÛÛ²° °²²ÛÛ          ÜÛÛ²° °°²ÛÝ   ° 
²ÛÛÛÛ²°°²ÛÛÝ
         ÞÛÛ°    Û²²ÛÛ  Û²°    ÛÛ²°   °²²ÛÜ       ÜÜÛ²²°  °²ÛÛ   ÛÜ° 
²ÛÛ²° °²ÛÛ



Off-course, I could continue to use "Lucida Console P" for all  
Textmate purposes, but thats not optimal.


/ Johan


On 8 okt 2006, at 07.16, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Jacob Rus wrote:
>> I bet you could make a command which would change these code  
>> points into the relevant unicode code points, so that your artwork  
>> would show up correctly.  The nice thing about unicode is it can  
>> handle all of these glyphs.  I bet you could even use some  
>> existing command line tool like iconv to do it.
>
> Then as your font you can use DejaVu Sans Mono, which has all of  
> these unicode glyphs included (I just checked).
>
> -Jacob
>
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