#mousetext — Public Fediverse posts
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I gotta say, I adore the fact that we're still using something very similar to 1980s "graphics characters" / "MouseText" / "Petscii" in 2026
(No, the QR code won't work for you, it's just an example :)
~ $ qrcp something.png Scan the following URL with a QR reader to start the file transfer, press CTRL+C or "q" to exit: http://192.168.1.27:34909/send/gegg █████████████████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████████████ ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █ ▀▀█ ▄▄▀█▄█▀█ ▄▄▄▄▄ ████ ████ █ █ █▀▄▄▄ █▀▀▄█▀▀▄█ █ █ ████ ████ █▄▄▄█ ██▄▀▄▀▀▄▀ ▄▀▀▀█ █▄▄▄█ ████ ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █ ▀ █▄▀ █▄█▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████ ████ ▀▄ ▀ ▄▄█▄▀ █ ▀ ▄ █ ▀▀ ▀▀▄█▄ ████ █████ █ ▀▄██ ▀ ▄██▀ ▀█ ▀█▀▄▀▄▄▀████ ████▄▄█▄██▄█ ▀▀ ▀█ ▄█ █ ▄▀▀ ▄▄▀▀████ ████▀▀█ █▄▄ ▀ ▀▄▄▄▀▄█ ▀▄▄▀ █▀▄▄ ▄████ ████▄█ ▀▀ ▄█▀▄▀▀▄█ ▀ █▀█▀ ▄▄█▀ █████ ████▄██ ▀▀▄█ █ ▀▀ ▀▄ ▀▀█▀▄▀▄▄ ██████ █████▄████▄█ ▄▄▄ ▄▄██▄█ ▄▄▄ ▀▀████ ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █ █ ▄ ▀ ▀██▀ █▄█ █ █████ ████ █ █ █▀▄ ▀█▀█ ▄▀ █▄▄ ▄▄▀██████ ████ █▄▄▄█ █▄ ▀ █▄█ ▄ ▀█ ▄ ▄█▀▄████ ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄█▄██▄▄█▄████▄▄█▄█▄▄█████ █████████████████████████████████████ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ~ $ -
MobaXTerm fares somewhat better, getting REP of non-BMP characters right.
But conversely it seems unable to comprehend unscii-16, and insists upon unscii font glyphs being only 8 lines high, resulting in massive gutters between rows.
And only unscii has the glyphs for MouseText. They're not in Cascadia Mono, for example.
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Microsoft Terminal goes badly wrong when REP is combined with characters outwith the BMP. Microsoft Terminal Preview is better, but still goes wrong sometimes when (as in the second image here on the bottom scrollbar) told to REP a character.