Talk:ASCII Art (AA)

What are the exceptions to characters having either half or full width in Shift JIS art? I only know of the colon as seen in some of these Higurashi examples G1ade (talk) 20:36, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

I may be conflating MS Gothic and MS PGothic here. G1ade (talk) 20:44, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

>I may be conflating MS Gothic and MS PGothic here

Yup. With proportional Japanese fonts (such as MS PGothic, which is used in 2channel-style AA), the spacing of each and every character is proportional to the character's width, and these sizes can vary from font to font (Meiryo is very different to MS PGothic for example). With monospaced Japanese fonts (such as MS Gothic, which is used in Ayashii-style AA), the character spacing can only be one of two possible sizes: full-width, or half-width

It's worth noting that in monospaced Japanese fonts, Hiragana, kanji, symbols, and characters from other non-Latin scripts are always full-width; on the other hand, Katakana, alphanumeric, and Western punctuation characters can be either full-width or half-width

It's also worth noting that monospaced Western fonts are fixed-width, so there's only a single size available. For this reason, they're incompatible with both 2ch and Ayashii AA --Anonwaha (talk) 21:27, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

I was editing the page in the middle of your reply so I added the distinction between MS Gothic and MS PGothic. G1ade (talk) 21:40, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

Regarding ASCII Art vs Shift-JIS Art

Technically speaking, ASCII Art is art made using ASCII characters. Japanese text art does not use ASCII, and therefore shouldn't be called ASCII Art. HOWEVER! ...the Japanese almost exclusively call their text art "ASCII Art" and "AA" (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/アスキーアート), while "SJIS art"/"Shift-JIS art" are made-up terms that some Westerner somewhere coined - and it's not even correct because the Japanese (and everyone else) has been using UTF-8 for years

So with the above in mind, plus the fact that we are a bunch of weeaboos that obsess over Japanese things (and not least Japanese BBS culture), I think its appropriate - nay, necessary! - for us to use "ASCII Art" and "AA" to describe Japanese text art. We can just call Western text art "shitty AA" or something instead ヽ(´ー｀)ノ --Anonwaha (talk) 21:50, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

*rolls eyes at how forced that is* G1ade (talk) 21:56, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

Roll 'em all you want n00b - undoing Western crap and going back to Japanese roots is the very basis of Heyuri! --Anonwaha (talk) 22:02, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

That's just your opinion, and Heyuri isn't your blog. Nub. G1ade (talk) 22:06, 21 May 2022 (EDT)