> covered with ugly graffiti and ramshackle addons
Unfortunately there is plently of precendent for this ramshacklism. Like ACK/NAK - those are protocol signals, not characters! ENQ? What even is Shift In/Shift Out (SI/SO)? Then the database characters toward the end there FS, RS, GS, US.
> backwards running text (hey, why not add spiral running text?)
You jest, but you do have cursor positioning ANSI sequences which are designed to let text draw anywhere on your screen. And make it blink! You also don't find it weird to have a destructive "clear-screen" sequence?
> glyphs defined by multiple code points
I wonder when they started putting the slash across the 0 to differentiate from the O.
> you vote for my made-up emoticon, and I'll vote for yours!
I mean you do have the private Unicode range where you can actually do that. But before that, SIXEL graphics.
Unfortunately there is plently of precendent for this ramshacklism. Like ACK/NAK - those are protocol signals, not characters! ENQ? What even is Shift In/Shift Out (SI/SO)? Then the database characters toward the end there FS, RS, GS, US.
> backwards running text (hey, why not add spiral running text?)
You jest, but you do have cursor positioning ANSI sequences which are designed to let text draw anywhere on your screen. And make it blink! You also don't find it weird to have a destructive "clear-screen" sequence?
> glyphs defined by multiple code points
I wonder when they started putting the slash across the 0 to differentiate from the O.
> you vote for my made-up emoticon, and I'll vote for yours!
I mean you do have the private Unicode range where you can actually do that. But before that, SIXEL graphics.