Re: [OT] ASCII art (was Re: John Long - Obviously Murdered by Dawn (perhaps))

Stephen Wilson told the audient void (and rec.arts.drwho):
"Professor Sorenson" <sorenson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Stephen Wilson wrote:

ASCII art only really works if EVERYONE else reads it using the same font
as the person who designed it. The above works reasonably well in Times
New Roman. Generally though a fixed-width font is used (such as Courier
New). And in that case the above doesn't work as well.

One thing you can never guarantee is the font that people view these
posts with. So ASCII art will only ever work for some readers, never for
all readers.

Yes, but why would anyone want to read Usenet newsgroups without plain
text or a fixed width font? Most newsreaders are not defaulted that way.

I use Outlook Express which defaults to Times New Roman (which is not fixed
width). I can personalise it to use the font of my choice (fixed width or
otherwise). I'm not sure what you mean when you say "plain text".

After he pointed out that the question marks I saw were not in the
original, I realised that it was, in part, a charset issue. My client
prints a question mark whenever it encounters a character it doesn't
recognise. The original post used "charset=utf-8", with a couple of
characters that don't map perfectly into the 8859-1 that my client uses.
(Still doesn't explain the bizarre mismatched line widths on the right.)

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