Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

You know those fancy ANSI art back in the golden
days of B.B.S., widely used in login and menu
screens?

I designed those screens while being co-sysop
of the Concerto BBS Group back then. :)

ansi art - Google 搜尋
<https://www.google.com/search?q=ansi+art>
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

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On 7/13/2026 11:43 PM, Schlomo Goldberg wrote:

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

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What happened to your colors? :)
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In news.software.readers,
Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com> wrote:

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That's not looking good here:

https://qaz.wtf/tmp/screen-20260713-102045.png

What happened?

This, with escape sequences, doesn't display in my editor or newsreader,
I can see it with `cat` however.


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Out of band alternative (UTF-8):

https://qaz.wtf/tmp/acid0594.ans

Elijah
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

In news.software.readers,
Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com> wrote:

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That's not looking good here:

Must be your newsreader. Try another one, like Thunderbird. I assume
most TUI ones, like slrn, will work too (as long as they support
Unicode).

This, with escape sequences, doesn't display in my editor or newsreader,
I can see it with `cat` however.

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Interestingly, I can see colors (blue for the picture, gray for
signature) but the picture itself is mangled. And it seems that for
picture both foreground and background set to blue. In any case, there
is no way to make something like that to work across the board,
especially in case of modern (GUI) newsreaders. None of them support
escape sequences, as far as I know.
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Schlomo Goldberg wrote in alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers:

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

Can Thunderbird display ANSI text within a message?

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flnews can, although the colors are imposed (black on white, here).
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To: Mr. Man-wai Chang
Re: Re: Display ANSI within a msssage?
By: Mr. Man-wai Chang to alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.general,news.software.readers on Tue Jul 14 2026 01:19:36

What happened to your colors? :)

I ate them.
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