Comment by afandian
9 days ago
Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't (EDIT actually does) claim to be ASCII). It uses e.g. "◎" U+25CE BULLSEYE which definitely isn't.
And the 'ascii-driven-development' blog post mentioned downthread even uses emojis.
> Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't claim to be ASCII).
In big ASCII letters on the landing page: Unleash your ideas with ASCII [] MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
:-)
I claimed a few things. I never claimed I could read.
Maybe if it was all in emoji?
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A historical note: even though the line/box-drawing characters go back to the IBM PC, they aren't ASCII. The PC used Code page 437, which added a bunch of characters to ASCII. To be genuinely ASCII, you need to draw your boxes with pipes and hyphens (| and -).
If you want a _real_ graphics mode in the spare bits of ASCII, check out MODE 7 (teletex) of the BBC Micro, page 488.
https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/docs/BBC_User_Guide.pdf