Processes legacy BBS-style ANSI art (ACiDDraw, PabloDraw, etc.) to UTF-8.
Escape codes and line endings are processed for terminal friendliness.
- Install the latest Go compiler from https://golang.org/dl/
- Install the program:
go install github.com/BourgeoisBear/ansiart2utf8/ansiart2utf8@latestansiart2utf8
Converts ANSI art to UTF-8 encoding, expands cursor forward ESC sequences
into spaces, wraps/resets at a specified line width, sends result to STDOUT.
Leave the [FILE] parameter empty to read from STDIN.
USAGE: ansiart2utf8 [OPTION]... [FILE]...
OPTIONS
-bytes uint
MAXIMUM OUTPUT BYTES PER-ROW (0 = NO LIMIT)
-debug
DEBUG MODE: line numbering + pipe @ \n
-w uint
LINE WRAP WIDTH (default 80)
-x ANSI TO XTERM-256 COLOR SUBSTITUTION
(to overcome strange terminal color scheme palettes)
To see the result, make sure that your terminal font provides glyphs for the old CP437 box drawing characters.
Here are a few fonts that will do:
:e ++enc=cp437
- PabloDraw, an ANSI drawing program for Windows
- ACiDDraw, an ANSI drawing program for DOS
- Lots of ANSI art to be seen here:
http://blocktronics.org/artpacks/ - Ultimate guide to pimping your terminal:
http://mewbies.com/acute_terminal_fun_table_of_contents.htm - A very clear mapping of code page 437 characters to Unicode at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Characters - Helpful references on ANSI escape codes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Control-Sequences.html