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Re:ASCII Art Weather by ape4 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @08:25AM (#11496027)
It could be argued that you don't need an ascii icon for "sunny", etc.
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Re:ASCII Art Weather by rhplus on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:01AM (#11496735)
Just one codepoint would do! Basic weather symbols like SUN (U+2600) and RAIN (U+2614) have been in Unicode since 1993. More detailed 'emoji' have been added in recent years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

[2] i.e. http://emojipedia.org/fog/ etc

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Re:ASCII Art Weather by doodpants on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:34AM (#11497045)
Ok, but then it's not ASCII art; it would be Unicode art.
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Re:ASCII Art Weather by jayrhynas on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:17AM (#11496895)
the CLI application[1] that this is based on has an "emoji" frontend[2] that does just that

1: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

2: http://cl.ly/1w3b45242k3R

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