Package: toilet
Version: 0.1-2
Severity: important
The package description for toilet says
TOIlet can open FIGlet fonts and is mostly commandline-compatible with it.
This turns out not to be the case. figlet defaults to supplying
plain printable ASCII output. toilet's default output consists, apart
from whitespace, entirely of non-ASCII characters. It's representing
characters in UTF-8, which is especially a problem if one isn't using a
UTF-8 terminal, but even with the UTF-8 decoded the problem remains that
they're not ASCII characters, nor even Latin-1. The default apparently
involves Unicode block-drawing characters.
I have tried all of the fonts supplied with toilet, and none of them
is plain ASCII. In fact, none of them use any ASCII characters at all.
Not much figlet compatibility here.
Also, the "export formats" (listed with "toilet -E list") mostly say
they'll generate colour escape sequences. All of the offered plain
text formats involve colour. That is, there is no way to request
purely-printable plain text. Almost entirely unlike figlet.
I'd really like to have a fully-free replacement for figlet. That is,
a free program that renders text nicely as (plain, pure, printable)
ASCII art. But in the absence of that capability, please at least stop
describing toilet as being compatible with figlet.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages toilet depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcucul0 0.99.beta16-1 transitional dummy package
ii toilet-fonts 0.1-2 collection of TOIlet fonts
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
toilet recommends no packages.
Versions of packages toilet suggests:
ii figlet 2.2.2-1 Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters
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