Version 1.13 of package Ascii-Art-To-Unicode has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Ascii-Art-To-Unicode describes itself as: ====================== a small artist adjunct ====================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ascii-art-to-unicode.html ## Summary: The command ‘aa2u’ converts simple ASCII art line drawings in the {active,accessible} region of the current buffer to Unicode. Command ‘aa2u-rectangle’ is like ‘aa2u’, but works on rectangles. Example use case: - M-x artist-mode RET - C-c C-a r ; artist-select-op-rectangle - (draw two rectangles) +---------------+ | | | +-------+--+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +-------+-------+ | | | | | | | +----------+ - C-c C-c ; artist-mode-off (optional) - C-x n n ; narrow-to-region - M-x aa2u RET ## Recent NEWS: NEWS for ascii-art-to-unicode.el See the end for copying conditions. - 1.13 | 2020-11-24 - handle modern ‘ucs-names’ being a hash table - 1.12 | 2018-04-29 - Commentary, docstrings now use U+2018, U+2019 - mention ‘DOUBLE’ as possible value for ‘aa2u-uniform-weight’ - small docfixes - 1.11 | 2017-10-03 - fix uncool attempt to be cool :-/ - 1.10 | 2017-10-03 - be cool w/ Emacs where (ucs-names) => hash table - 1.9 | 2014-05-29 - new command: ‘aa2u-mark-rectangle-as-text’ - new homepage: https://www.gnuvola.org/software/aa2u/ - 1.8 | 2014-05-21 - new command: ‘aa2u-mark-as-text’ - package keywords added (to help discovery) - 1.7 | 2014-05-11 - new var: ‘aa2u-uniform-weight’ - new command: ‘aa2u-rectangle’ - HACKING and Tip Jar links in Commentary - 1.6 | 2014-05-09 - fix regression for interactive invocation w/o active region - 1.5 | 2014-04-03 - ‘aa2u’ takes args BEG and END - 1.4 | 2014-01-14 - move to ELPA (from <https://www.gnuvola.org/software/j/aa2u/>) - change copyright to FSF - require 'cl-lib instead of 'cl - use ‘cl-flet’ and ‘cl-labels’ - comment munging - add ‘lexical-binding: t’ - remove huge list at EOF - add Author and News headers - 1.3 | 2013-09-21 - bug fixed: ‘?+’ neighbor valuation polarity flipped - new support for BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT {UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT} (singleton) - 1.2 | 2012-11-05 - refer to Unicode characters by name, not number - 1.1 | 2012-04-17 - TAB agnostic - ‘aa2u’ operates on active region if ‘use-region-p’ - example use case also demonstrates transformation - 1.0 | 2012-04-07 - initial release Local Variables: mode: outline outline-regexp: "\\([ ][ ]\\)*- " End: _____________________________________________________________________ Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
