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Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

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Re: Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

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Post by Domark »

sjs382 wrote: post #42
christianvozar wrote: post #30

The ansi art scene is still kicking it. http://blocktronics.org

Also https://artpacks.org

The BBS ANSI scene was fun, but then we moved to Photoshop. Now it’s fun to work with Retina level graphics! And the tools now... I love Lightwave.

So it’s always been peculiar that some are attached to this particular style. Then I noticed a bit of it is quite explicit or just nasty, and the art style complements the restricted artistic method ANSI provides.

Also since I associate it with my youth, it just seems so immature. That’s obviously my personal bias.

Re: Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

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Post by diaz »

Annatar wrote: post #24
kyberias wrote: post #13

It's a bit unclear why this exists. It seems to combine glyphs from 8-bit computers and place them in Unicode space even though the standard doesn't define many of them. I guess the reason is to be able to combine them in some "art". Perhaps those missing code points could be added by the Consortium based on this feedback.

If the terms "PETSCII", "Amiga ASCII" and "ANSI art" do not mean anything to you, then this font and what can be rendered with it will be completely meaningless to you and you will be confused like you are. You had to have experienced it to appreciate it, which you do not apoear to have. A shame, really, since you missed out on a lot of cool art.

I think for many people this here doesn't mean anything. I'm having a really hard time understanding what is going on in the comments and on the post itself and I've just settled with "it's something about ascii art on terminals" and that's it. Probably has uses. But don't dismiss the confusion on lots of people since this appears to be target at older folks.

Re: Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

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Post by lifthrasiir »

coldtea wrote: post #40
ubernostrum wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The process of proposing and adding an emoji to Unicode is slower and less easy than you seem to think it is.

And yet it happens like clockwork, with 200+ additions in the past several years and 100s more in the pipeline... http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html Except if you mean that some layman proposing a new emoji for addition to the Unicode standard is difficult -- but I'm talking about the big companies...

Mainly because Unicode is the industrial standard steered by major vendors (among others). There is even the dedicated Emoji Subcommittee (ESC) [1] to meet demands. It's obvious if you think about it.

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/#Unicode_Emoji_Subcommittee

Re: Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

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Post by JdeBP »

fireattack wrote: post #27
JdeBP wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that you are blaming the wrong font for that, because I suspect that the kanji/hanja/hanzi glyphs in question come from GNU Unifont. I myself overlay K16-1990 over GNU Unifont for better-appearing characters. * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html#Uni...

Your link shows it should be able to display these Chinese characters correctly though. The TTF file I downloaded from this website cannot.

The image shows K16-1990 overlaid upon GNU Unifont, precisely because the former has better glyphs than the latter (had at the time). It does not show that Unscii should be able to do this at all.

Re: Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

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Post by Annatar »

diaz wrote: post #46
Annatar wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the terms "PETSCII", "Amiga ASCII" and "ANSI art" do not mean anything to you, then this font and what can be rendered with it will be completely meaningless to you and you will be confused like you are. You had to have experienced it to appreciate it, which you do not apoear to have. A shame, really, since you missed out on a lot of cool art.

I think for many people this here doesn't mean anything. I'm having a really hard time understanding what is going on in the comments and on the post itself and I've just settled with "it's something about ascii art on terminals" and that's it. Probably has uses. But don't dismiss the confusion on lots of people since this appears to be target at older folks.

One can render ASCII art or even "poor man's graphics" in any text editor regardless of their age. Yes it's dated, but if one is working anywhere near physical equipmet like terminal concentrators hooked up to servers' serial ports, one quickly learns to appreciate graphic approximations of windows with just ASCII characters.

The rest like Amiga ASCII art from Skid Row and PaRaDoX and the like... you missed out. It was a glorious childhood. It's hard to relate just how great it was owning a Commodore Amiga computer. The ASCII art in front of cracked games from the group who cracked them belong with that experience, and back in the day, it was mind-blowing. This font is a modern implementation of characters enabling that kind of art again, on modern systems, in programs like OpenOffice for example.

And the target is the cracking / demo scene, irrespective of age.

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