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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Apr 2000.
Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

ojoshiro wrote:
> sara wallen wrote:
> >Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >> Henry Segerman wrote:
> >> >
> >> > You could link it with a spell checker - if it cant find any words it recognises
> >> > in large amounts of ASCII then its probably not writing.
> >>
> >> Hmmm... n�nting s�ger mig att den biten kanske inte riktigt st�mmer...
> >
> >LOL... j�ttetr�kigt, med Word97 ocks� :(
> 
> The two ladies here demonstrate what 'text with non-ascii characters'
> means.

Yes, that too.   :-)

> It sure wouldn't survive your ascii-checker, Veronika =)

No, but the point was that it wouldn't survive Henry Segerman's
suggestion that one use a spell checker to identify what's _ascii art_.
That *might* work, for *some* pictures, *if* everybody wrote in English
(assuming that it would be an English spell checker). That method would
not work for text in other languages, or for those visual poems somebody
posted here a while ago...


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