patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295767_AT_gmail.com> writes:
> I am not so sure if you can get all the unicode well displayed on least
> terminals.
>
> If you make a nice art / ascii graphic, you are never sure whether it
> will end well displayed depending on the system/terminal, that the
> user uses.
No, but it's less likely than any other encoding (apart from plain
ASCII), and it will only improve, given that alleast every platform has
adopted at most Unicode (and often UTF-8 specifically) as the preferred
way to deal with text.
I'm not saying UTF-8 is perfect, just that it's the best choice. But
yeah, stay away from the weirdest characters. For example, '💩', which I
often find useful when discussing software, is missing in many fonts.
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Received on Tue Dec 03 2013 - 15:49:57 CET