Re: Please help me with this perl question

I don't see how you can do that... you are dependent on the capabilities of
the terminal. If its an old school text terminal, you can't just
draw arbitrary stuff like a rotated D. That is pretty fancy and even in
graphics mode has nothing to do with perl, or do I misunderstand your
question?

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Michael Ludwig <milu71(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de> 
wrote:

> FORREST COPLEY schrieb am 29.12.2011 um 10:48 (-0700):
> > Is it possible to write a perl script to print a completely custom
> > character on a console text terminal?
> > Say a D rotated 90 degrees or something.
> > or an A with the innards filled in.
> Here's how to print alpha to omega:
>
> perl -C2 -lwe 'print join q(, ), map chr, 0x391 .. 0x3a9'
>
> Α, Β, Γ, Δ, Ε, Ζ, Η, Θ, Ι, Κ, Λ, Μ, Ν, Ξ, Ο, Π, Ρ, ΢, Σ, Τ, Υ, Φ, Χ, Ψ, Ω
>
> If you know the Unicode codepoints you can certainly print the characters.
> For Perl, it's essentially numbers.
>
> Whether your particular character comes out nicely or not depends on
> whether the font you're using has the glyph in question.
>
> Next time you might want to spend two seconds or even ten thinking
> about a suitable subject line …
>
> --
> Michael Ludwig