From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Rutuparn Pawar  wrote:   
   > Hi there,   
   > I am a new member of this group. I was looking at the   
   > conversations and realized that the ASCII art is not   
   > displaying correctly. Do I need to set a specific font   
   > in my web browser?   
      
   Given that you posted using Google Groups, I think what you really   
   need is to view the group in a newsreader rather than a web   
   interface. Some graphical newsreaders (or NNTP-capable email   
   clients) display text with a variable-width font by default so you   
   may then need to find the option to switch to a fixed-width font.   
      
   In the web browser, besides using a variable-width font the   
   whitespace also gets messed up. I was going to suggest looking   
   at the page source code and copying the art from there over to a   
   text editor set to use a fixed-width font, but I discovered that:   
      
   a) The Google Groups web pages are MASSIVE now - the page for the   
      "grasping hand" thread is 539KB!   
   b) I'd forgotten that HTML special characters are then shown as   
      character entities. So when you finally find that art text   
      amongst all the HTML/JS bloat in the page source, it's full   
      of ' instead of ' characters (though there's no actual   
      reason to do so in that particular instance).   
      
   So back to "use a real newsreader". Or maybe complain to Google   
   that they should have an option to put the post text inside   
   of 
 tags, but I'm 99.9% sure they'll ignore you.   
      
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