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Midnight Commander using box-drawing characters in a terminal emulator. Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with ...
FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters (see ASCII art ). The name derives from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters". [4]
An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [ 10] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and variable-width fonts became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art.
Neofetch. Neofetch is a discontinued system information tool written in the Bash shell scripting language. [ 2] By default, on the left side is a logo of the distribution, rendered in ASCII art. [ 3][ 4] Unlike a system monitor, the tool only features a static display of the computer's basic hardware and software configurations and their ...
ANSI escape code. Output of the system-monitor htop, an ncurses-application (which uses SGR and other ANSI/ISO control sequences). ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting ...
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). [2] It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, [3] PC-8, [4] or DOS Latin US. [5] The set includes all printable ASCII characters as well as some accented letters (), Greek letters, icons, and line-drawing symbols.
ASCII stereogram. ASCII stereograms are a form of ASCII art based on stereograms to produce the optical illusion of a three- dimensional image by crossing the eyes appropriately using a single image or a pair of images next to each other. To obtain the 3D effect (in Figure 1 for instance), it is necessary for the viewer to diverge their eyes ...
Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) [2] [3] is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation [b] in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1 . Shift JIS is based on character sets defined within JIS standards JIS ...