How can I draw in unicode with artist-mode?

Question

I'd like to produce unicode art with artist-mode. But it appears that artist-mode only supports ASCII art.

How can I configure artist-mode to produce instead of

  +---------------+
  |               |
  |       +-------+--+
  |       |       |  |
  |       |       |  |
  |       |       |  |
  +-------+-------+  |
          |          |
          |          |
          |          |
          +----------+

this

  ┌───────────────┐
  │               │
  │       ┌───────┼──┐
  │       │       │  │
  │       │       │  │
  │       │       │  │
  └───────┼───────┘  │
          │          │
          │          │
          │          │
          └──────────┘

I actually read "how can I draw a unicorn with artist-mode" :-) unicode makes so much more sense... The characters are actually hardcoded, you would have to fork artist.el and replace/adapt the (XXX-char) functions. — Tom Regner, Sep 25 '14 at 09:47

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '14 at 09:46

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There is nice package by TTN called aau2 which is available in GNU ELPA.

I tried to test it. result is nice as you expected.

M-x package-install RET ascii-art-to-unicode RET
\select region/
M-x aa2u RET

Edit: just for reference, here is mailing list link for an example. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-05/msg00316.html

answered Sep 25 '14 at 09:46

kindahero

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It seems that once aa2u has converted there is no way to reverse that. So if I've once converted to unicode, and I can not change the "art" with artist-mode. :( – Flow Sep 25 '14 at 09:56
I am not sure what you mean. I could undo it by `C-/` and could change and draw as usual. – kindahero Sep 25 '14 at 10:26
Sure but not if I have terminated the emacs session in between. – Flow Sep 25 '14 at 10:27
Hmm. a feature request to author I guess :/ – kindahero Sep 25 '14 at 10:40

How can I draw in unicode with artist-mode?

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