On 10/7/06, Max Noel maxfnoel@gmail.com wrote:
Well, my understanding was that ASCII art works with any monospace font... Or are you talking about ANSI art, which is a wholly different beast (and which the screenshot in the first post of the thread you link to is)?
He's talking about ASCII art (the pictures there are all monochrome, except somone has set a background/forgeground color in one of them). I guess the issue is that most ascii art makes use of those black characters in codepage 437 (DOS ASCII) [1] and has to have a special font to display it correctly. It looks like he needs a bundle to be associated with a specific font / theme setting. I guess it might be handy for people doing APL programming or something too. If they still exist.
-Pawel
[1] http://www.borgendale.com/codepage/cp437.gif - see B0 throughDF