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Changes for version 2.11

  • Updated showfigfonts to also display TOIlet fonts.
  • Made non-existent font file messages clearer, IO::Uncompress:Unzip doesn't play well with others.
  • Added adhesive strip to prevent premature wrapping of glyphs made with widechars in perls natively supporting UTF-8.
  • Switched errors to cluck and confess.
  • More generic handling of file paths (bug #49936); everything is UN*X
  • Avoid "called too early to check prototype" warning.
  • Switch back from readline() to waka-waka for 5.005
  • Remove modern idioms from figlet for 5.005
  • Return figify returns utf8 string(s) where appropriate, removing the need for the user to binmode their output channel.

Documentation

display a FIGfont with associated codes
display large characters made up of ordinary screen characters
prints samples of the available FIGlet fonts

Modules

a perl module to provide FIGlet abilities, akin to banner
control file support for Text::FIGlet
text generation for Text::FIGlet