Re: Display ANSI within a msssage?

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:32:08 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers
Organization	Some absurd concept
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
In news.software.readers,
Schlomo Goldberg  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ██▀█▄ ▄█▀▄▄      ▀▀ ▄██▄      ▄█▀█▄
> ▄█▀█▄ ██▀█▄ ██▀█▄ ▄█▀▄▄ ▄██▄
> ██ ██ ██ ██      █▄  ██       ██ ▄▄ ██▀██ ██
> ██ ██ ██ ██ ██  ██ 
> ▀▀ ▀▀  ▀▀▀       ▀▀  ▀▀        ▀▀▀  ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀
> ▀▀ ▀▀  ▀▀▀   ▀▀

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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Out of band alternative (UTF-8):

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

Elijah
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the link works with `curl` for me