This module is yet another text table formatter module like Text::ASCIITable or Text::SimpleTable, with the following differences:

* * Colors and color themes

ANSI color codes will be used by default (even 256 and 24bit colors), but will degrade to lower color depth and black/white according to terminal support.

* * Box-drawing characters

Box-drawing characters will be used by default, but will degrade to using normal ASCII characters if terminal does not support them.

* * Unicode and wide character support

Border styles using Unicode characters (double lines, bold/heavy lines, brick style, etc). Columns containing wide characters stay aligned. (Note: support for wide characters requires Text::ANSI::WideUtil which is currently set as an optional prereq, so you'll need to install it explicitly or set your CPAN client to install 'recommends' prereq).

Compared to Text::ASCIITable, it uses 'lower_case' method/attr names instead of 'CamelCase', and it uses arrayref for 'columns' and 'add_row'. When specifying border styles, the order of characters are slightly different. More fine-grained options to customize appearance.