ASCIIFlow

Post by johnisgood » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 8:20 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #30

johnisgood wrote: post #17

There are lots of similar projects to this that made top HN the past week. Is there a list of it? I was not logged in and I lost history but the previous one I just saw earlier today was quite nice, too! Edit: Oh apparently it was "Monodraw". There was yet another one besides that. I am all up for such tools. What was the name of the one that allowed you to specify the diagrams using some custom DSL which in turn wou…

> What was the name of the one that allowed you to specify the diagrams using some custom DSL which in turn would generate the diagrams themselves? I think the recent one on HN that meets that description was D2 ( https://d2lang.com/ ), though that description fits a lot of tools.

Post by butlike » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 9:40 PM UTC

Post by numpad0 » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 4:42 AM UTC

16bytes wrote: post #27

numpad0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 20 78 78 78 ... Looks ASCII to me, Firefox on Windows. Could be OS.

" xxx"? That's the same in ASCII and UTF-8. OP is asking what are the line-drawing characters encoded as e.g: "┌" and "┐". Since the charset returned by the app is UTF-8, these will be interpreted and encoded as UTF-8 and not whatever "ASCII - Extended" means.