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Re:ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data by csdvrx on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:04PM (#19523477)
Your post made me create an account to respond to you and upload a few screenshots of what I use along with binaries. Check github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot - you will see it's not just nice but also super practical.

apt-get install mlterm and you're done!

For fallback, I agree: a braille support in gnuplot would be great when sixel support is not available.

Re:ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data by dheera on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:18PM (#19524159)
Interesting. Just tried that. It works, but it seems like it doesn't support a lot of Unicode (including Chinese which is my system language and used in a lot of my text files) so it's kind of a deal-breaker to use on a day to day basis.

If gnome-terminal and other mainstream terminals supported sixel though that would be really amazing.

Nevertheless though it would be nice to build support into ROSshow for sixel since it's not that difficult to launch mlterm just for ROS visualizations, and for people who use English only, and in hopes that gnome-terminal will support it one day.

Re:ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data by csdvrx on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:44PM (#19524931)
Happy you like it :)

It should definitely support all Unicode however. mlterm is very unicode friendly.

Maybe it's a font problem?

Anyway, I agree with you, mainstream terminals should support sixel!