Ansi character set

vvvv beta general
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im wondering how to get the trademark ansi art blocks rendered in vvvv, like this -

▄             ▄█▄ █▄       ▄
 ▄█▀█▓ ▄▓▀▀█▀ ▀▀▀█▓▀▀ ▀▀    ▄█▀█▓▀▀▀▀▀▓▄▀██▀▀
██  ██ ▀██▄▄ ▄█  ▀ ░▒ ░▒   ██  ██ ▄█▄ █▀ ██
█▓▄▀██  ▄ ▀█▌▓█    ▒▓ ▒▓   █▓▄▀██ ▓█ ▀▄  █▓
█▒  █▓ ██▄▓▀ ▀█▄▄█▄▓█ ▓█   █▒  █▓ ▒█  ▓█▄ ▒
    ▀▒           ▀  ▀ █▀       ▀▒  ▀  █▀  ░

i tried rendering text in the gdi renderer (by copying and pasting) but it didnt seem to recognise the blocks.

also, im not sure how to easily create many copies of the same thing (such as the block characters) within a renderer

thanks

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while the renderer uses by default the ANSI character set, it does not support the so called ANSI escape sequences to include colors and motion used by many artists.

I recall the ░▒░▒ characters only from the old MSDOS character set, and they have been removed from the ANSI character set in favour of more european diacritics. fortunately the block graphic elements have been saved in the unicode set, so you should be able to use them when you switch all relevant nodes to Unicode.

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thankyou for the quick reply.

do you mean changing the character encoding to UTF8?
because ive tried that and ANSI and both just gave me either alt codes or garbage in return in the renderer. i also tried changing fonts to arial, terminal, system and fixedsys.