Why Advent-of-Code is not using the full power of ...

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[Emre Akgül]

Why Advent-of-Code is not using the full power of Unicode-Standards?

This?

FF7FSF7F7F7F7F7F---7
L|LJ||||||||||||F--J
FL-7LJLJ||||||LJL-77
F--JF--7||LJLJ7F7FJ-
L---JF-JLJ.||-FJLJJ7
|F|F-JF---7F7-L7L|7|
|FFJF7L7F-JF7|JL---7
7-L-JL7||F7|L7F-7F7|
L.L7LFJ|||||FJL7||LJ
L7JLJL-JLJLJL--JLJ.L

Or this? (in this case only the pipe is printed, but with the replaced chars)

∙┌┐┌S┌┐┌┐┌┐┌┐┌┐┌───┐
∙│└┘││││││││││││┌──┘
∙└─┐└┘└┘││││││└┘└─┐∙
┌──┘┌──┐││└┘└┘#┌┐┌┘∙
└───┘┌─┘└┘####┌┘└┘∙∙
∙∙∙┌─┘┌───┐###└┐∙∙∙∙
∙∙┌┘┌┐└┐┌─┘┌┐##└───┐
∙∙└─┘└┐││┌┐│└┐┌─┐┌┐│
∙∙∙∙∙┌┘│││││┌┘└┐││└┘
∙∙∙∙∙└─┘└┘└┘└──┘└┘∙∙

https://www.compart.com/de/unicode/block/U+2500

[Scott Odle]

Because then I’d solve it with MS Paint 🙂

[Emre Akgül]

u can also use the given input if u really want to use paint 😅

[Dan Fingal-Surma]

ASCII only input I think

[ephemient]

lowest common denominator among all languages

[ephemient]

also the Unicode version doesn't line up properly on my display, due to mismatched metrics from fallback fonts I believe

[Jakub Gwóźdź]

yeah, basically what Sebastian was talking about yesterday in AoC video around 28 minute.

In 2019, my first AoC, I used to change font and line height to properly display all the # and other characters in maps, after a few years I don’t really care anymore 🙂