2020-12-06
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I was thinking about how the unicode emoji set has a lot of things that work like "semigraphics" in more traditional microcomputer character sets, but with the addition of color. And then I thought about how Playscii's character set tile-to-character mappings are utf-8 text files, so it would be easy to make a character set suitable for exporting to "plain text" that preserves these emoji mappings:
It's fun to doodle around with color in Playscii and be able to export something that will actually show up nicely in a Gemini client:
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Every character in that Playscii source document has a pure white foreground color; the plaintext exporter doesn't care about it anyway. It's a deliberate confusion of Playscii's usual character-color dichotomy.
Unfortunately, none of the available whitespace characters in monospace fonts have a width that lines up perfectly with that of the color blocks - the closest most come is the "U+3000 Ideographic Space" character - so the difference means that this converted piece of pixel art doesn't look quiiite right in either a text editor or a Gemini client:
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It's just nice seeing so much color on Gemini pages.
On the off chance this is useful to any Playscii users, here's the character set:
Unzip that to your Documents/Playscii/charsets/ subdir.
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