On Wed, 27 May 1998, George wrote:
> >Sort of but not really. There are 4 pseudo gradient characters in the
> >ASCII character set, use of these and a different background color can
> >produce a very crude mix, also the gradients can be used without a
> >background color to acheive a crude shade of the foreground color.
>
> That's the IBM extended character set, ASCII only goes up to 127.
> So I wouldn't bet on say, a Macintosh, displaying them correctly.
It would, provided it had the proper font installed and configured.
Remember that the mac has actually more characters available than
IBM/PCs/Windows. So it just maps the characters to the symbols, which are
right if the font is right.
The point, tho', would be that using these would start making the thing
non standard/non portable/non versatile as it is right now. And I am sure
there would even be the odd windows terminal emulator that wouldn't get
them correctly.
Eduo
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