Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
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Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
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#4Unsung is one of the best little blogs around. Well worth checking out the rest of the posts.
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#5Couldn't help riffing off on a tangent from the title (since the article is about diagramming tools)...
Dylan Beattie has a thought-provoking presentation for anyone who believes that "plain text" is a simple / solid substrate for computing: "There's no such thing as plain text" https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/theres-no-such-thing-as... (you'll find many videos from different conferences)
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#6I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.
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#7From the title, I was not expecting a bunch of extended ASCII characters.
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#8The list at the top could be longer:
- https://asciidraw.github.io/
Anybody know more?
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#9From the title, I was not expecting a bunch of extended ASCII characters.
The article mentioned that the use of 'ASCII' within the context of those tools should not be seen as the limited character set ASCII. Personally, I would avoid mentioning ASCII at all.
The title just talks of plain text though, and plain text usually means UTF-8 encoded text these days. Plain, as in conventional, standardised, portable, and editable with any text editor. I would be surprised if someone talked about plain text as being limited to just ASCII.
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#10The list at the top could be longer: - https://asciiflow.com/ - https://asciidraw.github.io/ Anybody know more?
D2 https://d2lang.com/ added beta support for ASCII & Unicode output last year.