RFC 8140
The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character, April 1 2017
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Author:
- A. Farrel
- Stream:
- INDEPENDENT
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8140
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Abstract
Ever since Gutenberg discovered and patented ASCII and the corresponding "Courier New" font with its now-famous "ten" point size, artisans and artificers have striven to represent their views of the world in print.
Similarly, starting from Darwin's discovery of the hippogriff and his subsequent registration of the creature as an International Trade Mark, men (and some women) have struggled to catalog the fabulous variety that is called "nature".
This document supplies a number of representations of all manner of things (both elemental and hypothetical) supplied by some of our best collectors of curios and delivered in a manner that may well be reused by the cunning document author.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.