"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay."

Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by suprjami on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:06AM (#47898799)

The list at the top could be longer:

- https://asciiflow.com/

- https://asciidraw.github.io/

Anybody know more?

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by 1024kb on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:18AM (#47899684)

I have a few more on my site under the bookmarks page. Link in bio.

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by snackbroken on Saturday April 25, 2026 @02:54AM (#47899328)

D2 https://d2lang.com/ added beta support for ASCII & Unicode output last year.

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by suprjami on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:05AM (#47899371)

That would be interesting. I like D2 though the lack of control over the layout is a bit frustrating sometimes.

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by 4k93n2 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:16AM (#47899423)

https://monosketch.io

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by smusamashah on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:55AM (#47900136)

https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram a list of lots of tools

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by electroglyph on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:15AM (#47900226)

how about a unicode art tool?

https://electroglyph.github.io/atheriz_draw/

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by everybodyknows on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:52AM (#47901572)

https://github.com/TheoKVA/ascii-box-editor

A visual editor of UTF-8 BOX DRAWING characters, contrary to "ascii" in the name.

No server, no installation: browser-side Javascript only.

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by tolciho on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:17PM (#47902967)

"ascii" for some means "anything textlike", so for example you may see roguelike game developers saying "nice ascii" in response to a screenshot full of CP437, Unicode, or text-like glyphs, all very much not ASCII. Some will get defensive when called out on this, claiming that CP437 is okay to call ascii because it's "extended ASCII" (nevermind the many different and conflicting extensions), or others point out that they do not have a better term for something textlike.

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Re:"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to ... by jasomill on Sunday April 26, 2026 @01:06PM (#47911867)

And in Win32, the term "ANSI" is used variously to refer to the current default non-UTF-16 character encoding, any non-UTF-16 character encoding, any non-MS-DOS, non-UTF-16 character encoding, and probably other things I've forgotten.

Ironically, one of the few things you can reliably say about any "ANSI" encoding in Windows is that it was never standardized by ANSI.

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