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Is ascii Text art portable?

Is ASCII Text art portable from Windows to Linux, and MAC?

Reasons it might not be:

  • The consoles of the different systems use different character sets.
  • The consoles use different fonts
  • Some consoles might not support colors?

Is it possible that only some characters could be used to make it portable?

Solution
    1. If it really is ASCII art, it only uses the ASCII character set, so there should be no issue with character sets or encodings.
    2. Fonts might well be an issue. ASCII art only works with fixed-width fonts, not with proportional ones.
    3. I have never seen ASCII art using different colors.

    All of this has nothing to do with platforms or operating systems.