severity 560334 normal retitle 560334 TOIlet needs a font made of ASCII characters. thanks
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009, Zefram wrote: > The package description for toilet says > > TOIlet can open FIGlet fonts and is mostly commandline-compatible with it. > > This turns out not to be the case. figlet defaults to supplying > plain printable ASCII output. toilet's default output consists, apart > from whitespace, entirely of non-ASCII characters. It's representing > characters in UTF-8, which is especially a problem if one isn't using a > UTF-8 terminal, but even with the UTF-8 decoded the problem remains that > they're not ASCII characters, nor even Latin-1. The default apparently > involves Unicode block-drawing characters. > > I have tried all of the fonts supplied with toilet, and none of them > is plain ASCII. In fact, none of them use any ASCII characters at all. True. We hope to have pure ASCII fonts in the future. > Not much figlet compatibility here. If you use the same fonts and parameters, you will usually get the same output in TOIlet and FIGlet. This is what I mean by "compatible". Since some FIGlet fonts are free, you just need to find one that suits you. > Also, the "export formats" (listed with "toilet -E list") mostly say > they'll generate colour escape sequences. All of the offered plain > text formats involve colour. That is, there is no way to request > purely-printable plain text. Almost entirely unlike figlet. TOIlet only outputs colour if you use a colour filter and/or a colour font. Otherwise, the output is pure text. > I'd really like to have a fully-free replacement for figlet. That is, > a free program that renders text nicely as (plain, pure, printable) > ASCII art. But in the absence of that capability, please at least stop > describing toilet as being compatible with figlet. The program is totally free. You seem to be unhappy with the data. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
