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Questions tagged [ascii-art]

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How to type smiley face ASCII☺?

How to type smiley face ASCII ☺ ? P.S I copy pasted ☺ from a site. ☺
softwarematter
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What is the ASCII (Alt+number) for the square root symbol (√) in Windows?

How do I type the square root symbol (√) in Windows?
ajy
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A site for pimp my Notepad

Is there any site which have premade words and stuff for Notepad like: ______ ___ ___ /\ _ \ /\_ \ /\_ \ \ \ \L\ \\//\ \ \//\ \ __ __ _ __ ___ \ \ __ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ /'__`\ /'_ `\/\`'__\/ __`\ \ \ \/\ \ \_\ \_ \_\ \_/\ …
Chris_45
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ASCII-art unicorn one-liner

I need to spruce up my debugging messages. I have a smiley in there :D, but someone suggested using a unicorn. There are some nice resources on ASCII unicorns (e.g. http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/uvw/unicorn.txt), but these are all too large to fit…
Claudiu
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Captcha workaround while using a text only broswer

Has anyone developed or found a workaround for getting past captchas while using a text only webbrowser, such as Links? The only thing that occurred to me would be to download and render the image using an ASCII art program. Any other suggestions…
C. Ross
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How can I paste space-formatted tables in Lync without losing the formatting?

Multiple spaces are replaced by a single space character. Too bad when doing things as such: |#|Name | |-+---------| |1|John Paul| |2|John | |3|Robert | |4|Jimmy | Edit: This kind of output is generated (via telnet) by code of mine, so…
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How to save mplayer's output when watching in ASCII mode (with aalib)

I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo aa). But that only plays the movie, transcoding…
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How to make an "ASCII" art table for Facebook or Twitter?

How to have a table on services that only support plain text like Facebook or Twitter, since they are all misaligned for not having a mono-spaced typeface? In other words, how to turn…
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Is there a key combo that's usable for Unicode characters in the same manner as ASCII characters?

Possible Duplicate: Typing strange letters¿ w/o numpad? If you open up Window's Character Map and select, say, Arial as the font then you're obviously shown all of the characters that Arial can possibly produce. Of course, our keyboards don't…
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Asciio on Ubuntu, can't find export as .txt

I just downloaded Asciio to my workstation running Ubuntu 14.04. I created a pretty complex piece of ascii code in order to put as part of the documentation inside my code. I can save files and open them (to edit later), but I can't export the file…
Thatkookooguy
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Inverse characters in MPlayer + aalib

I've noticed that the 'aalib' or 'aa' video output plugin for MPlayer does something it didn't do before: it uses inverse characters for display (black text over white background). I've tried several combinations of aalib options: noinverse ,…
golimar
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Word adding newlines after replaced text?

For a video game, I'm making an ascii map of 1s and 0s which the program makes a 3D labyrinth out of. This is obviously not fun to edit (100x100). To make it easier, I tried setting up Word's autocorrect feature to replace all zeros with blue…
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How can I put custom, color ascii art into Metasploit?

I'd like to add to or change the ASCII art that gets displayed on startup in Metasploit. Where is/are the file(s) I need to edit to do this, and what is the syntax? How can I include color in the art? Does it support Unicode characters?
Iszi
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Prevent the legend from being obscured in gnuplot's "dumb" terminal

Gnuplot's set term dumb is useful for visualizing data directly on a remote PC, where a GUI may not be available. However, I am seeing an issue, where the legend becomes obscured, causing the result to be unreadable. It seems like the plot lines are…
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How to draw ASCII art through cmd to textfile(notepad)?

I was exploring the banner command on linux and am wondering to use something of that sort to put into text files in Windows10. I have tried cowsay and figlet, didn't like the cow/tux talking to me and had compatibility issues with figlet. Would be…
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