Diagram hacking and UTF-8

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jan 18 10:27:32 UTC 2019


While I think I get exactly why JamesB192 unleashed ditaa on the flow
diagram in nts.adoc, I think it's overkill for this use. One of the
possible futures for this document includes large parts of it becoming
the header comment in a file named ntske.c.

Accordingly, I'm thinking about redrawing it.  Only not in
conventional ASCII art; it's 2019 and I think we can get away with
using UTF-8 forms characters.

They'll display just fine on Linux terminal emulators and in web
pages.  Can anybody think of a reason not to do so?  I can fall back
to ASCII art...
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