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  • Display ANSI within a msssage?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Sunday, July 12, 2026 21:42:44
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    Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

    You know those fancy ANSI art back in the golden
    days of B.B.S., widely used in login and menu
    screens?

    I designed those screens while being co-sysop
    of the Concerto BBS Group back then. :)

    ansi art - Google 搜尋
    <https://www.google.com/search?q=ansi+art>
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  • From Schlomo Goldberg@schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Monday, July 13, 2026 15:43:28
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    "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

    Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 01:19:36
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    On 7/13/2026 11:43 PM, Schlomo Goldberg wrote:
    "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

    Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

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    What happened to your colors? :)
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    @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
    / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
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    ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw
    The game is afoot... Meow...
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  • From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Monday, July 13, 2026 17:32:08
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    In news.software.readers,
    Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com> wrote:

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    That's not looking good here:

    https://qaz.wtf/tmp/screen-20260713-102045.png

    What happened?

    This, with escape sequences, doesn't display in my editor or newsreader,
    I can see it with `cat` however.


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    ░░░░░░░▄ ·VS/ACiD·
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    ▐ · P R O D U C T I O N S · 1 9 9 4 ·


    Out of band alternative (UTF-8):

    https://qaz.wtf/tmp/acid0594.ans

    Elijah
    ------
    the link works with `curl` for me
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  • From Schlomo Goldberg@schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Monday, July 13, 2026 18:09:21
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    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

    In news.software.readers,
    Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com> wrote:

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    That's not looking good here:

    Must be your newsreader. Try another one, like Thunderbird. I assume
    most TUI ones, like slrn, will work too (as long as they support
    Unicode).

    This, with escape sequences, doesn't display in my editor or newsreader,
    I can see it with `cat` however.


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    ░░░░░░░▄ ·VS/ACiD·
    ░▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▄
    ▐ · P R O D U C T I O N S · 1 9 9 4 ·

    Interestingly, I can see colors (blue for the picture, gray for
    signature) but the picture itself is mangled. And it seems that for
    picture both foreground and background set to blue. In any case, there
    is no way to make something like that to work across the board,
    especially in case of modern (GUI) newsreaders. None of them support
    escape sequences, as far as I know.
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  • From Michael Uplawski@michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Thursday, July 16, 2026 10:07:06
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    Schlomo Goldberg wrote in alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers:
    "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

    Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

    ██▀█▄ ▄█▀▄▄ ▀▀ ▄██▄ ▄█▀█▄ ▄█▀█▄ ██▀█▄ ██▀█▄ ▄█▀▄▄ ▄██▄
    ██ ██ ██ ██ █▄ ██ ██ ▄▄ ██▀██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
    ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀

    flnews can, although the colors are imposed (black on white, here).
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  • From Phigan@phigan@mutinybbs.com.remove-j6d-this to Mr. Man-wai Chang on Friday, July 17, 2026 08:34:46
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    To: Mr. Man-wai Chang
    Re: Re: Display ANSI within a msssage?
    By: Mr. Man-wai Chang to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Tue Jul 14 2026 01:19:36

    What happened to your colors? :)

    I ate them.
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